policies for the integration of refugees and asylum applicants. NIEM contributes to the growth of highly efficient integration systems in all member states involved, to the increase of the understanding and involvement at the level of national institutions in charge with the integration of refugees and international protection beneficiaries, as well as the improvement of institutional cooperation between the states involved in the project. The project includes two categories of activities. Under the first category, research, the project develops and implements a tool for the comparative analysis of integration policies in the 15 EU member states. Under the second category, consulting, the project includes regular meetings with the governmental and nongovernmental actors involved in the integration process of refugees and international protection beneficiaries. In the following, NIEM aims at analysing integration policies and practices in several fields and several states with different integration system, allowing for a comparative analysis of the policies and solutions implemented by each state. Besides a framework to analyse and measure how each state manages integration, NIEM also represents a source of exchange of good practices and integration solutions between the participant states. ● workshop on the topic: “Inter-institutional cooperation - facilitating the social reintegration of persons having executed a freedom deprivation-based punishment”, organized on December 7, 2018 by the Penitentiary of Slobozia in partnership with the Tulcea county Territorial Branch - National College of Romanian Social Workers. The meeting aimed at developing the community support framework to facilitate the social integration of prisoners, thus establishing the role of each involved actor and the specific activities s/he may perform, so as to contribute to the social reintegration of beneficiaries by using minimum resources. Within the interinstitutional activities developed in the context of Government Decision no. 389/2015 on the approval of the National Strategy for the social reintegration of persons deprived from freedom, 3 procedures were drawn up, to be implemented for a 1-year period, currently subject to testing. 82