Despite the official European and national government support for the recognition of informal learning, there still is little integration of such processes within formal education systems. In particular there often lacks organisations and methodologies for the “formal” recognition of informally acquired capabilities. In this situation the approach of the ICONET project has been to consider the points of contact for the transfer of methods for the validation to be at the level of practice (“de facto” recognition) and in cooperation with different initiatives (“social appreciation”). In other
words ICONET has designed the transfer as a bottom‐up process. The guide describes the transfer of innovative methods at different levels:
1. Practice
2. Educational institutions and administration
3. Educational policy