Creative Innovation Qualification
Creative Innovation is an SCQF Level 5 & 6 qualification (24 credits) that empowers learners to turn bold ideas into real world solutions.
Blending creativity with business thinking, it helps students explore, innovate, spot opportunities, and design ideas with impact. It’s a space to think creatively and commercially, and to gain the tools and confidence to lead change and develop essential skills for the future.
The first playlist, Dreamers and Doers, encourages learners to move from ideas to action by tackling challenges that connect creativity with real opportunities to make a positive impact. The second playlist, Carers and Darers, encourages learners to reimagine the world around them and become changemakers, exploring health, education, and the moments that matter most.
Dreamers & Doers Playlist
If you’re just getting started, begin with our Dreamers & Doers Playlist,
it’s the perfect first step into the qualification and a great way
to introduce your learners to big ideas and bold thinking.
Sparks
Challenge 1
Learners are challenged to dream the impossible by reimagining an everyday problem through curiosity, creativity and bold thinking.
Along the way, they explore their values and discover how innovation begins when personal purpose meets imaginative action.
Joy in a Box
Challenge 2
What if we measured success by how often we made people smile?
Learners reimagine an old phone box as a joyful business idea, then explore how that spark of happiness could grow into a product, service or campaign with real world impact.
Snack to the Future
Challenge 3
In this challenge, learners step into the role of food innovators, coming up with surprising new snacks that could take the world’s taste buds by storm.
From radical ingredients to sustainable packaging, they develop a bold concept and design a campaign
to take their idea from curious to craveable.
Creative Playlists
Our Dreamers & Doers and Carers & Darers Playlists are free to download and ready to teach, even if you’re not taking part in our Creative Innovation Qualification. Each playlist brings together three connected challenges, and individual projects can also be explored separately on our Resources page.
Dreamers & Doers encourages learners to turn their values, curiosity and imagination into bold ideas for products, services and campaigns.
Carers & Darers invites learners to become changemakers, using creativity and empathy to rethink health, education and the moments that matter in everyday life.
Clicking the Add to Toolkit button will save the playlist to your personal toolkit, which you can access from the top-right corner of the page. From there, you can download all the resources and start exploring, collaborating and bringing Creative Innovation into your classroom.
Playlist 1
Dreamers and Doers
Dreamers & Doers is the first Creative Innovation playlist that helps learners explore how ideas can grow from personal values, curiosity and imagination into meaningful real-world solutions. Across three challenges, learners develop bold concepts, shape products, services and campaigns, and build the confidence to turn their ideas into action.
Projects included
- Sparks
- Joy in a Box
- Snack to the Future
Playlist 2
Carers & Darers
Carers & Darers the second Creative Innovation playlist that encourages learners to use creativity, empathy and personal values to make a positive difference in the world around them. Across three challenges, they design meaningful experiences, develop ideas that help people thrive and reimagine how learning could become more joyful, relevant and inclusive.
Projects included
- Make Your Day
- Caring Innovators
- Wonder Makers
Where to start?
The Creative Innovation qualification is made up of three creative challenges embedded in two playlists, Dreamers and Doers and Carers and Darers, delivered across an academic year for senior phase pupils in around five timetabled hours a week.
Whether you’re asking “Where do I start?” or “What do I need?” we’ve got you covered. Follow our simple step by step guide to support you from download to confident delivery.
Meet Brua
We know starting something new can come with questions. That is why we have created an AI powered support tool designed to help you get the most out of the Creative Innovation qualification.
Whether you are looking for ideas on how to deliver a challenge, unsure about assessment, or just need a quick refresher, Brua our AI agent is here to help. It is trained on everything we have created so far, but just like your learners, it is still learning. That means it might not get it right every time, but it is getting better all the time.
Think of it as a helpful starting point, available whenever you need it, and always improving.
What happens next?
We’ve designed the Creative Innovation Qualification to be easy to deliver, accessible to all educators, and truly supportive of the creative process. With clear registration, simple tools, and a transparent assessment system, everything is in place to help you focus on what matters most, developing confident, curious, and creative learners.
Let's do this!
If you’d like to go deeper, we have extra resources available on request, including a Teacher Handbook and access to our Padlet full of assessment tools, templates, and examples. These are designed to support planning, delivery, and moderation at every stage of the qualification.
Whether you're preparing for your first challenge or supporting learners through final assessment,
these tools will help you feel more confident and connected. Just get in touch, and we’ll make sure you have everything you need.
Get Involved
Registration is open to any educator in Scotland interested in delivering Daydream Believers’ Qualifications: Creative Thinking and Creative Innovation.
The next registration window opens in September, and if you’re keen to get involved, we’d love to hear from you and support you on your journey.
If you're based outside Scotland and are interested in the qualification, feel free to reach out, we're always open to conversations about how this might work in different contexts.
By getting in touch, you’ll receive helpful resources to get started, key dates and guidance, and an invitation to join our social channels and wider community.