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The MEG experiment took data at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in the years 2009-2013 and published the most stringent limit on the charged lepton flavor violating decay $\mu \rightarrow e \gamma$: BR($\mu \rightarrow e \gamma$) $<4.2 \times 10^{-13}$ $@90\%$ C.L.  The MEG detector is currently being upgraded in order to reach a sensitivity of $\sim 4 \times 10^{-14}$, which corresponds to an improvement of one order of magnitude. The basic idea of MEG-II is to achieve the highest possible sensitivity by making the maximum use ($7\times10^{7}$ muons/s) of the available muon intensity at PSI with an improved detector, keeping the background at a manageable level. The status of the MEG-II detector and the current schedule will be presented.  MEG-II, together with the next generation charged lepton flavor violation experiments Mu3e ($\mu^+\rightarrow e^+e^-e^+$) at PSI and Mu2e and COMET ($\mu \rightarrow e$ conversion) at Fermilab and J-PARC respectively, will reach very high sensitivities in the next years. Accelerator upgrades are expected that will make muon beams with intensities of the order of $10^{10}$ muons/s feasible. At this extremely high beam rates, new detector concepts should be adopted in order to overcome the accidental background. Some future directions will be discussed.

Status and prospects of charged lepton flavor violation searches with the MEG-II experiment