Category: 2025CLPLeventweeks

Innovation Week 2025

Scotland’s first National Innovation Week will take place later this year, Business Minister Richard Lochhead has announced today.

Taking place from Monday 22 September to Friday 26 September, it will celebrate Scotland’s proud legacy of innovation while showcasing the country’s global leadership in pioneering the transformative technologies and industries of the future.

The week will highlight events and roundtables happening all over the country, celebrating the very best Scotland’s technology ecosystem has to offer – from groundbreaking work in AI and fintech to leading innovations in health tech and climate tech.

The centrepiece will be a Summit taking place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Thursday 25th September, in parallel with ScotlandIS’ ScotSoft Conference, and bring together industry and academia to drive forward shared ambitions and achieve global presence.

As the delivery partner for the Summit and Innovation Week, ScotlandIS CEO Karen Meechan stated: “Scotland has all the ingredients to be a global technology leader – a rich heritage of innovation, a culture that embraces bold thinking, and academic firsts in cyber and technology-related university degrees. We’re not always the best at shouting about how good we are but Scotland’s first Innovation Week and Summit is a chance to change that, to shine a much-needed spotlight on our world-class ideas and capabilities, and to attract the investment and talent that will power our digital future.”

Scotland’s National Innovation Strategy sets out four key areas to capitalise on competitive advantage:

  • advanced manufacturing
  • energy transition
  • health and life sciences
  • data and digital technologies

The Business Minister visited ONE BioHub in Aberdeen, which aims to double the number of life sciences businesses in the north east by 2028.

Mr Lochhead said:

“Scotland is a nation of inventors, creators and problem solvers. We invented the steam engine and the television, and discovered penicillin. Today we stand at the forefront of the next wave of transformative technologies which not only offer immense potential for economic growth but also powerful tools to tackle the global challenges of our time – from healthcare and energy to climate change.

“Companies across Scotland are speeding up the development of new drugs and medicines through automation, pioneering the energy systems of the future and developing the space and satellite technology to help tackle climate change – to give just a few examples.

“It is essential that we seize these opportunities to benefit both our economy and society. Scotland’s first National Innovation Week marks a pivotal moment to turn ambition into action and cement our place as a truly global innovation nation.”

More details via the National Innovation Week website coming soon. Find out more about ScotSoft 2025 here

Digital Creators Week 2026

Digital Creators Week is an opportunity for learners to put their digital skills to use and create content in a variety of media forms. This week of action packed live lessons will run during the week of 11th May 2026.

The week will be a mixture of sessions delivered by our partner providers and digilearn.scot team members.

Specific sessions are TBC and we will share updates as and when they become available.

Cyber Scotland Week 2026

CyberScotlandWeek invites individuals, organisations and communities across Scotland to raise awareness of cyber security and strengthen our collective cyber resilience. It is organised by CyberScotland Partnership, who are a collaboration of key stakeholders brought together by the Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit, with the aim of raising cyber security awareness and building Scotland-wide cyber resilience.

This year’s theme will be shared in due course.

Through a series of curriculum live lessons, sharing practice, and professional learning sessions during the week, CyberScotland Week aims to educate, support, and empower schools, educators, learners, and organisations with the knowledge and tools to stay secure online.

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Scottish Games Fest 2025

We are excited to be supporting Scottish Games Fest throughout September 2025.

There will be a range of sessions from ES and partners each week, including:

  • game playing
  • game making
  • esports
  • learning with and through games
  • careers
  • resources and training for educators

There will be regular updates as dates are confirmed.

Select an event on the calendar to find out more about it or scroll down the page for links to each event page.

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These videos have been created and shared by partners in addition to LIVE lessons and webinars. They can be used with children and young people or as CLPL by educators.

ES GamesFest LIVE lesson: Design a games-inspired trainer

This lesson, aimed at upper primary, will get learners to design their very own trainer incorporating recognisable elements from their favourite games characters. This lesson is inspired by the Daydream Believers THREADS project.   There are two worksheets that would useful to print. There is an optional finishing element using… Read more

ES GamesFest event: Tabletop Scotland

Tabletop Scotland Returns to the Royal Highland Centre this September 5th – 7th September at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh Tabletop Scotland is one of the UK’s premier festivals of analogue gaming, allowing visitors to unplug from technology and enjoy the best in board games, card games and roleplaying games.… Read more

ES GamesFest LIVE lesson: Into Film Games Lite Workshop 2

Join the Into Film education team for a LIVE lesson aimed at upper primary children. In this lesson they will use their Games Lite resources to apply learners’ knowledge of game narratives and structure to curricular topics. Young people will develop cross-curricular literacy skills through a tried and tested framework… Read more

ES GamesFest LIVE lesson: Into Film Games Lite Workshop 1

Join the Into Film education team for a LIVE lesson aimed at upper primary children. In this lesson they will use their Games Lite resources to apply learners’ knowledge of game narratives and structure to curricular topics. Young people will develop cross-curricular literacy skills through a tried and tested framework… Read more

ES GamesFest LIVE lesson: Launch of our national games jam with Amanda Ford

This LIVE lesson will be presented by Amanda Ford, who teaches game design at West College. She is passionate about games and education and in this webinar she will explain how our GamesFest national games jam will run for schools from the 22-26th of September. The games jam is free… Read more

ES GamesFest webinar: Minecraft Mayhem with North Lanarkshire Council

This teacher webinar will be presented by Callum Croughan from North Lanarkshire’s digital skills team. He will explain all how they setup and delivered their successful Minecraft Mayhem project and the impact on the children who play it in schools. Register using this link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e9aa9563-9ae1-4c78-b127-3713d2c6e4cf@0ef77447-1083-4dec-b89f-27c765076840  Read more

ES GamesFest LIVE lesson: Pastaroids on MakeCode Arcade with North Lanarkshire Council Digital Team

Join North Lanarkshire Council’s Digital Team in building ‘Pastaroids’ – a fun ‘shoot ‘em up’ game starring Oodles (‘The Lil’ Bowl of Noodles’). Code Oodles (‘The Lil’ Bowl of Noodles’) to shoot herby Vegan meatballs at the oncoming hordes of unhealthy junk food! The game will be made on MakeCode Arcade and… Read more

ES GamesFest webinar: Cyber resilience for games and gaming

This teacher webinar will outline the key cyber resilience skills and knowledge that could be taught in the context of games and gaming. It will explore the risks inherent to online gaming and identify steps to reduce these risks. This webinar is aimed at educators of all ages.   Register… Read more

ES GamesFest LIVE lesson: Alexander Horowitz from Criterion Games talks about making games and working in games

Dr Alexander Horowitz is a game development leader and audio specialist based in South East England. He is the Creative Craft Director at Electronic Arts’ Criterion in Guildford, UK, and the Global Communications Lead for EA’s accessibility ERG, ABLE. He directing the European audio team on Hogwarts Legacy, and contributing to its Grammy… Read more

ES GamesFest webinar: Jamie Bankhead from Konglomerate Games on exploring games development and careers

Jamie is the CEO of Konglomerate Games, a video games company dedicated to creating games to help people. From physiotherapy games for children with breathing conditions to medical training games for doctors and maths and literacy games for kids, Jamie will be sharing insights into games for good as well… Read more

PHASE25 Esports Conference, 26th September Edinburgh

Are you running, or interested in running, esports in your setting? Join Phase25 at Murrayfield stadium, and explore the dynamic intersection of academia and esports, emphasising the profound impact of integrating esports into educational curricula. This conference will highlight how esports can be leveraged as a powerful tool for cultivating… Read more

Scottish Games Fest School Games Jam 2025

Register with us to let us know you’re taking part in the games jam Register using this link: COMING SOON Read more

Scottish Games Fest School Games Jam 2025

Register with us to let us know you’re taking part in the games jam Register using this link: COMING SOON Read more

Scottish Games Fest School Games Jam 2025

Register with us to let us know you’re taking part in the games jam Register using this link: COMING SOON Read more

Scottish Games Fest School Games Jam 2025

Register with us to let us know you’re taking part in the games jam Register using this link: COMING SOON Read more

Scottish Games Fest School Games Jam 2025

Register with us to let us know you’re taking part in the games jam Register using this link: COMING SOON Read more

Tech She Can GamesFest LIVE lesson: Tech for esports and gaming

Tech She Can will provide a LIVE lesson on esports and gaming. Join us and explore the technology and career opportunities in games and esports. Sign up using this link: https://techshecan.org/live-assemblies Read more

Involve your ELC/P1 & 2 in Scottish Games Week

Throughout September 2025  we will be celebrating all things gaming – playing, making and learning about them. What might this look like for our younger learners at early level? What games can children play? Are the games “open” or “closed”? Can children self direct the play or does the game direct… Read more

Learning & Teaching with Digital

To kick-off the 2025 – 26 academic session, we will be hosting a number of opportunities in August and September for staff, schools, and senior leaders. Some of the sessions will cover the following:

  • Digital Schools Award
  • Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit
  • Planning and delivering a Digital Strategy 

These sessions are designed to enhance the learning & teaching experiences with digital in schools.

Once sessions are established, we will update this page with links to the events.