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WITHOUT RESEARCH NO DEVELOPMENT AND NO PROFESSIONALISATION! project finally produced a module that may be fruitfully used in training programs for supervisors and coaches, as well as in their further education. A next small step was made in the method of (terminological) clarification as applied in the Grundtvig program, but this did not go far enough. On the one hand, a lot was learned about the difficulties of comparing the various, sometimes conflicting approaches to supervision and coaching in the participating countries, on the other hand, it was only possible to explore this superficially. The urgent need to dig deeper and find a consistent way of describing supervisory skills and competences became undeniably obvious. To make this possible, a further project had to be developed and - in order to also obtain European funding — presented as an application to Brussels. Successfully, because in 2012, the LEONARDO ‘ECVision Project’ was selected by the European Commission to develop a European System of Comparability and Validation of Supervisory Competences.* In my view, this project proved to be a very important step for ANSE and for the entire community of supervisors and coaches. Two main results are: « A Glossary to guarantee comparability of terms, definitions and legal frameworks, and... « A Competence Framework to guarantee comparability of supervisory competences and qualifications by describing them in terms of learning outcomes. These outcomes should not be seen as ‘the one and only truth’ of supervision and coaching designs, methods and practices. The idea is to see it as orientation, as a base for fruitful discussion and for further development. It is, again, a minimum consensus on quality. But this time on a decidedly higher level. The glossary is an attempt to collect all important terms in use within supervision and coaching. It offers descriptions and definitions, and as such may be useful for practitioners, but also for organisations and clients assigning, recommending or undertaking supervision or coaching. The glossary may moreover be useful as a basic resource of disambiguation to providers of supervision or coaching training programs. Ultimately, it is expected to be beneficial for everyone concerned. In addition to being a clarification tool, it is an initial step towards establishing a professional identity for supervisors and coaches on the European level. In the competence framework, supervisory and coaching competences are described on different levels, covering all activities of supervisors and coaches 3 Michaela Judy — Wolfgang Knopf (eds.), ECVision. Supervision and Coaching in Europe: Concepts and Competences, Vienna, ANSE, 2015. + 37 +
