 The IMES is an international network of the International Institute of Social History, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), the Karl-Marx-Haus (KMH) of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Trier, the Russian State Archive for Social/Political History (RGA) and the Russian Independent Institute for the Study of Social and National Problems (RNI), the latter two in Moscow.The main task of the IMES is to continue the publication of the "Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe".In 2015 the (federal science conference) of the German federal states and the German national government decided to continue funding the publication of "MEGA", albeit in a newly conceptualized form