Executive Summary

The EVN mission is to enable discovery in radio astronomy through innovative VLBI in-strumentation and the management of shared radio astronomy facilities within Europe and with affiliates in other countries. This document describes the vision of the EVN for the period until the year 2015. The first section presents the technical and operational possibilities that are available in 2007 or are to be available in the coming years for the development of the EVN. The second section describes the four major areas of radio astronomical research that will be augmented or initiated using the capabilities of the EVN2015. The Science Cases are: Th