Micro-credentials aim at formally recognising small-scale learning and incentivising individuals to acquire such training. Individual learning accounts provide individuals with learning entitlements that improve their access to training. Micro-credentials and individual learning accounts are subject to two Council recommendations that are soft law, i.e. they are legally non-binding upon the Member-States. The chapter analyses the most important standard-setting functions of the two recommendations and considers their role in the wider framework of evolving EU employment policy coordination. The analysis shows that the two recommendations are linked to many aspects of lifelong learning. The changing digitalised economy requires employees with the abilities and possibilities to reskill and upskill during their careers as needed. Beyond that, training must be accessible even to those between jobs and those in a disadvantaged position in the employment market. Ideally, workers should be able to relocate abroad within the EU to seek employment matching their skill level and have their training recognised in the country of destination, putting them on equal footing with local domestic training. Although Council recommendations on micro-credentials and on individual learning accounts are soft law instruments, they seem to have a meaningful standard-setting impact across the EU in advancing these policy goals. The more important of the two is arguably the Council recommendation on micro-credentials, which lays down the detailed framework for the whole “ecosystem” of micro-credentials. More generally, the two recommendations currently provide an indispensable benchmark for discussions and analyses regarding the national implementation of micro-credentials and individual learning accounts. The Commission has recently highlighted the need to take further steps in increasing cross-border mobility of workers. The analysis also showed that the two recommendations may have a role to play in advancing EU-wide employment markets, as the enhanced coordination in training of working-age adults and can be considered one of the crucial challenges in this yet rather uncertain path.