  Given the success of the first meeting of "Cosmic Ray Origin - Beyond the
Standard Models" (CRBTSM 2014), it was decided to hold a second meeting of this
international conference. In these introductory remarks, we rehearse the
motivation for reconsidering the origin(s) of cosmic rays (CR). We argue that
the standard model, in which the majority of Galactic cosmic rays are produced
through Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) in SuperNova Remnants (SNR), is
insufficient to account for recent observations. Some alternative scenarios are
introduced and examined.
