On May 12 and 13, the annual conference of the Arbeitskreis Europa- und Regionalismusforschung (AKER) of the German Political Science Association will take place at the Department of Politics of the Institute for East European Studies. The lectures will be devoted to the new tasks and challenges for regional organizations that arise, for example, from the major crises of the present (climate change, pandemic and Ukraine war) and discuss how regional organizations deal with these challenges. The program of the meeting is attached. The conference will take place in attendance. Audience members (also students) are welcome!