The ESSLLI organisation encourages study programmes to accept ESSLLI courses for obtaining ECTS Credits (at most 3 EC), and proposes that full participation in two courses, including required reading and work, counts as 1 EC, in four courses as 2 EC, and in six or more courses as 3 EC.

The valuation of the student’s workload and learning outcome in terms of the number of ECTS credits, as well as the validation of the credits, is left to the student’s home institution.