The INCSMPS anniversary conference: "From the Lisbon Strategy to Europe 2020 - two decades of Romanian Labour Market Research” will be an execellent opportunity to present the institute's activity: two decades of Romanian Labour Market Research.Since it was created, in 1990, INCSMPS has performed scientific research activities in the field of labor market and social protection, thus supporting Romania’s efforts to create and develop a sustainable economy, based on modern, European principles. The establishment of the institute was necessary for creating the scientific expertise in the socioeconomic field in Romania and an acknowledgment of its importance in the context of the changes that occurred after 1990.Thus the projects carried out by the institute’s teams of researchers were mainly directed towards the central administration requests and followed the national strategies objectives, contributing to the establishment of the policies in the field. The quality of the activities as well as the involvement of researchers in the general effort to create a new Romanian society have led, every year, to an increased importance of the institute and its national&international acknowledgment.The results of the INCSMPS' research projects related to the labor market and social policy -as the creation of measurement instruments, the elaboration of methodologies for the assessment of the size, structure, territorial and category distribution, analysis and diagnoses, evolution and prognoses models for various temporal periods, action measures, programs and strategies, the monitoring of the development thereof, as well as the study of their efficiency and impact- have contributed on the one hand to the development of an active social environment, and on the other hand to signaling the appearance of new socioeconomic phenomena and the need to adopt new types of actions.In the entire research activity performed by the institute, both within the research and development programs, and within the direct contracts with beneficiaries, we considered the creation and presentation of scientifically based alternatives in taking decisions regarding the social field at any level, as well as quantifying the efficiency and forecasting the impact of various options.The institute has also directed its activity towards topics that allow the harmonization of the national policies with the requirements imposed for the country EU integration, towards objectives of the scientific research programs elaborated by EC or other international structures.