The promise of micro-credentials? The road to recognition Micro-credentials are gaining momentum in the European area as an innovative way to support skills development, lifelong learning and inclusion within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Union. In the latest Rome communiqué, the 49 EHEA countries identified micro-credentials as a way to make the EHEA more innovative. Micro-credentials are also essential to various actions of the European Commission. In the ambitious European Education Area micro-credentials are seen as a way to diversify the student population and to make higher education more inclusive by 2025 by supporting lifelong learning and providing more flexible and modular learning opportunities.