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3. Outlook for heritage interpretation in Europe and future prospects. TEHIC Towards a European Heritage Interpretation Curriculum 30 Outlook for heritage interpretation in Europe and future prospects By Manel Miró Alaix T rying to describe the current state of heritage interpretation in Europe is not an easy task. Above all, the major difficulty is due to the dispersion of ideas, concepts, and realities regarding heritage interpretation in Europe, a discipline that is far from being considered uniformly. This chapter is divided into three sections. In the first section the issue of training is tackled, the second section is devoted to the content of the profession and the third sec- tion talks about outlining future developments in heritage interpretation. One thing that has been noted in this research is the difficulty of trying to organise a discipline that is characterised by dispersion, both in terms of training and professional concepts. Simple questions such as "What is interpretation?" or "What are interpreters?" do not lead to a single, precise answer, but the answer always depends on the interpre - tive tradition to which the person providing interpretation belongs. And this is one of the most relevant pending challenges facing heritage interpreta- tion, with a view to becoming a discipline that is recognised by the academy and distinguishable from other heritage-related disciplines. I am not suggesting setting aside existing interpretive traditions, but to reach an agreement on the consideration of herit- age interpretation as a discipline. When we deal with the issues of training and the profession, this problem will appear in its entire appalling magnitude. The future will have to provide the solution, if there is one. XXI Conference of the Asociación para la Interpretación del Patrimonio, AIP. (Association for Heritage Inter- pretation) Seville 2022, Spain. Picture by AIP.