Public Archaeology has emerged as a field of archaeology in the last 20 years, if we use Tim Schadla Hall's 1999 paper as a starting date (Schadla-Hall, T. (1999). Public Archaeology. European Journal of Archaeology, 2(2), 147-158). Since then, its presence has increased significantly in the academic debate, although it still cannot be considered as a consolidated field of reflection and research in the mainstream of the discipline. However, at the moment Public Archaeology is acquiring an own academic profile as can be tracked in several indexed journals devoted to public archaeology contents, among them the referential Public Archaeology journal that began its publication in 1999.
However, the European academic system has not generated a proportional response to the challenges of Public Archaeology of how to introduce the related aims, concepts and skills in the graduate and postgraduate training models, neither has it produced a grounded reflection on how to incorporate these reflections, contents and methodologies in the European Higher Education curriculum.
Therefore, the objective of this document, which is the result of INNOVARCH, a 2-years collaboration project in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme, is to propose a schematic structure of an eventual training career in Public Archaeology and a training scheme which includes the minimum necessary conditions to allow its adaptation to the different academic contexts in which European archaeologists are being currently trained.
