High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Status and Perspectives

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The year 2008 has witnessed remarkable steps in developing high energy neutrino telescopes.

• IceCube at the South Pole has been deployed with 40 of its planned 80 strings and reached half a cubic kilometer instrumented volume, in the Mediterranean Sea the "first-stage" neutrino telescope ANTARES has been completed and takes data with 12 strings.
• The next years will be key years for opening the neutrino window to the high energy universe.
• IceCube is presently entering a region with realistic discovery potential.