CYANOTYPES Framework
Strategic skills for creative futures start here
The CYANOTYPES Framework is a practical tool for understanding, developing, and adapting future competences in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).
It supports creative professionals, organisations, educators, networks, and policymakers in navigating social, digital, and ecological change by focusing on how people act, decide, collaborate, and create in complex environments.
View this short animated video providing a general introduction to the work of the CYANOTYPES project
The Framework offers users a way to:
understand and anticipate skills needs and ambitions,
explore transversal competences for urgent and future skills needs,
egage in co-creative processes to identify and develop new and context-specific learning pathways.
Actionable Learning Journeys
One of the greatest challenges in creative education is helping learners engage with complex systemic problems—such as climate resilience, social justice, or digital ethics—without becoming overwhelmed or overly theoretical.
CYANOTYPES translates these challenges into concrete learning experiences that support collaboration, experimentation, and reflection across different contexts.
Creative Agency & Clusters
The CYANOTYPES Framework is grounded in the concept of Creative Agency, the capacity to act, decide, and create value in changing conditions.
Creative Agency is articulated through five clusters, each offering a distinct perspective on how people and organisations engage with change. These clusters are not categories to fit into, but perspectives that can be combined, revisited, and interpreted depending on learning goals and contexts.
The image below shows a brief introduction to the clusters and competences.
Who is the Framework for?
The CYANOTYPES Framework can be used by educators, creative professionals, organisations, networks, and policymakers to explore skills needs, test approaches, and shape learning pathways for upskilling and reskilling in line with their context and ambitions.
The Framework is open and evolving. Its relevance grows through use, experimentation, and shared learning.
Pilots are a key way of engaging with CYANOTYPES in practice
Through pilots, organisations and networks explore how the Framework (and Toolkit) can be applied in real learning environments.
During Creative Skills Week 2025 – the meeting point for the Cultural and Creative Industries – partner pilots explored how the Framework resonates across sectors and contexts. Insights from these pilots directly inform the project’s ongoing development.
Pilots can take many forms, from short learning experiments and workshops to curriculum prototypes, sector-specific training programmes, or longer-term organisational initiatives.