Learning is an important condition for the unemployed to become socially included, as only through learning people can create their own social and emotional ability to communicate with other people and develop good social skills, improve their welfare through learning related to a profession, regain self-confidence by increasing self-knowledge, and thus become fully-fledged members of society, i.e. become socially included. The aim of the paper is to provide a rationale for informal learning of the unemployed as a factor of social inclusion.