Student seminar “Brainstorming for the archaeology folk” was held at Praali cabin (Põlva County) during February 22 and 23, year 2013. The main target group consisted of archaeology students on different academic levels, who are interested in popularizing archaeology and organizing corresponding events. The two main goals were to gather ideas for different events and to put together projects for future archaeology booklets. The seminar was intense and effectual.

Several students who participated in the seminar have been active in this field for 2 years already. In 2011, the archaeology game was developed in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory. It has gathered popularity ever since. The game has been used to introduce archaeology and its research methods in addition to the Scientists’ Night event also at schools, at the Tartu Hanseatic Days and at the open door days in the Tartu University Archaeology Department. To date, many new students have joined the popularization team and have already shown active collaboration skills during this student seminar.

The work plan of year 2013 was thoroughly discussed during the seminar. It was decided that in addition to the traditional Scientists’ Night’ and Tartu Hanseatic days’ events, they would also take part in this year’s museum night (in cooperation with Tartu City Museum) and in the “orienteering trip-festival” Trans Riffarrica held at the Rebala museum, June 16 2013. The main concepts of these events were also covered. One of the discussion topics was archaeological terminology and its relating problems. The last group task of the day was to create sketches for future archaeology popularizing booklets. As a result, four plans were put together and after some editing, it is planned to print them in the near future.