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.
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.
Carers & Darers Playlist
This new playlist invites learners to reimagine the world around them and step into the role of changemakers. Across three challenges, they become innovators in health, rethink education, and explore the days and moments that matter most, celebrating what deserves more attention. Through bold ideas, creativity, and reflection, learners shape meaningful responses to real-life challenges.
Clicking the add to toolkit button will add the challenge 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 enhancing your teaching and learning experience.
Make Your Day
Challenge 1
Make Your Day is the first challenge in the Creative Innovation Qualification. It invites learners to explore what truly matters to them and imagine how it could be celebrated.
They research, connect with others who share their passion, and design ways to bring people together around meaningful moments. It is about turning personal values into shared experiences that others can be part of.
Caring Innovators
Challenge 2
This is the second challenge in the Creative Innovation qualification. Created in partnership with the NHS Scotland and supported by Opencast, Caring Innovators challenges learners to step into the role of empathetic problem solvers in healthcare.
They explore what it means to be a caring innovator, using empathy and insight to respond to real needs. With creativity at the centre, learners develop and pitch their ideas to the NHS Scotland.
Wonder Makers
Challenge 3
This is the third challenge in the Creative Innovation Qualification. Wonder Makers invites learners to design a learning experience young people would actually want to turn up for.
They explore what their generation needs to thrive and turn those insights into joyful, engaging ideas for the classroom. Through research, creativity, and bold thinking, they pitch their vision for the future of learning to Daydream Believers.
Dreamers & Doers
If you’re new to the qualification or just curious about what it’s like to take part, start by downloading the Dreamers and Doers Playlist, that we shared above. This is the perfect introduction to the Creative Innovation experience.
Clicking the add to toolkit button will add the challenge 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 enhancing your teaching and learning experience.
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.
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.