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4. Mapping the profession of heritage interpreter TEHIC Towards a European Heritage Interpretation Curriculum 60 Survey by Interpret Sweden Network (ISN). ISN is a Swedish informal professional network for the development of heritage interpretation made up of about seventy mem - bers. This survey was carried out in 2021. The enquiry was aimed at finding out how they had come to interpretation, what areas of interpretation they found most interesting for their professional development or what their work activity was and in what contexts they used heritage interpretation. Thirty-two people responded to the survey, including edu - cators, museum educators, nature guides and antiquities experts, but also exhibition designers or producers, communicators, and digital producers (Fredholm 2023b), thus offering as varied a profile of the interpreter as can be found in other countries. Educational and professional profile of attendees at Interpret Europe (IE) annual meetings between 2017 and 2021. The meetings of this European-wide association are mainly attended by people from Europe and secondarily from non-European countries. After reviewing the curricular presentation of each participant over the five editions held (2017-2021), it is difficult to draw up a systematic picture of their profiles, as in the vast majority of cases the presentation, in the form of a summarised CV, lists education, titles, positions, and occupation together. However, as we shall see in the following section, the profiles are similar to those of the previous cases. Occupational Status (Response rate) Occupational Status (Response rate) Territorial scope of activity (Response rate) Working 91 % Free lance 31 % Regional 65.16 % Unemployed 7.4 % Employed 34 % Nationwide 22.26 % Other 1.6 % Government 35 % International 12.26 % Table 6. Data on occupational status of HI professionals obtained by the SEMIP 2020 survey (SEMIP 2022) Results on the socio-occupational situation of heritage interpretation professionals provided by the SEMIP 2020 survey (SEMIP 2022 ).