The presented paper capitalized the key elements of a comparative study regarding the current coordinates of the exercise of the social pedagogue profession in different European countries. From this perspective, social pedagogy is understood as an essential field of educational praxis and of social work, in general, playing an important role in the full development of the human being. The synchronic analysis of the presented study constitutes a well-defined corpus in the author’s doctorate thesis and only a sequence of the research methodology on which it is based.