On 13 January SOLIDAR and La Ligue de l’enseignement kicked off their LLP project “Building Learning Societies: promoting the validation of non-formal and informal learning” with a seminar for education and training practitioners focusing on the exchange of good practices to promote non-formal and informal learning opportunities for all, and to enhance cooperation to strengthen the development of validation policies in light of the 2012 Council Recommendation on validation of non-formal and informal learning (read EUCIS-LLL reaction and all our documents on the topic). The debate notably focused on validation as a common denominator in the worlds of education and work and the degree of formalisation of non-formal and informal learning outcomes when validated. EUCIS-LLL brought a European perspective to the topic and presented the work done by the task force the Platform has set up to follow up on the implementation of the Recommendation.