Ricerc@Sapienza

Informal learning practices are self-directed recreational, family and daily activities, not organised and structured in terms of targets, number of hours or learning materials. In most cases they are not intentional (e.g. learning from watching a film, travelling, volunteer activity, playing music in a band, etc.). In practice, there is no learning activity that does not mix together elements of formal/non formal and informal systems. As a consequence, learning is a convergence of heterogeneous learning systems, including less structured systems.

For a long time, Informal learning suffered a mechanical and simplified defi-
nition, as a category opposed to formal learning: it was in fact intended at a
space-time level, as a complex of outdoor activities, carried out outside school
walls, and outside a certifiable path.
If in the field of vocational training validation systems have been arranged at
European level by CEDEFOP (2017) to test and to certificate skills and abilities
acquired through individual experience, however, many third sector initiatives,