The Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, INFN-LNF Frascati and Institute of Nuclear Physics of the PAS in Kraków are organizing a biennial workshop to establish closer contacts between experimentalists and theorists involved in the studies of meson production, properties and interaction. The workshop will cover lectures on both experimental and theoretical aspects, in particular the presentation of new results.
The main topics of the workshop are:
·     hadronic and electromagnetic meson production,
·     meson interaction with mesons, nucleons and nuclei,
·     structure of hadrons,
·     fundamental symmetries,
·     exotic systems,
·     novel approaches in theory and experiment.

The present state of knowledge in the aforementioned areas as well as the latest developments and plans for future research will be presented during the Conference. The upcoming thirteenth edition of MESON continues the tradition of Kraków conferences which dates back to 1991. The papers from the latest conference, MESON2012 have been published in EPJ Web of Conferences Vol. 37 (2012).

A poster session held during the conference will be an opportunity for students and junior scientists to present the results of their work.