Overview

The Creativity and Design Leadership program at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering invites you on a transformative journey where you’ll develop nuanced self-awareness as a leader and gain the skills needed to navigate the complex and important intersection of creativity, design, and leadership. Recognizing that creativity, design and leadership fuel change and innovation across industries, the master draws on a variety of bodies of knowledge around how creativity and design approaches can be understood, developed, and applied.

Key Features

Modern forms of leadership, such as adaptive leadership, complexity leadership and creative leadership framework, are seen as keys to unlock the potential in people and today’s organisations as to solve problems and co-create new futures. But this is not just a program about creativity, design, and leadership, it is a journey of self-discovery and capacity building, where you examine your own attitudes, knowledge and skills, and further qualities to transform your career and worldview.

The university believes that creativity, design, and leadership intricately weave the fabric of the creative industries and, consequently, the world. The curriculum nurtures your ability to lead, inspires creative thinking, and sharpens your design skills. The resulting synergy equips you to lead with vision, navigate complexity, and drive results in the ever-evolving global creative landscape.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Creativity, design, and imagination
Leadership development and self-awareness
Building and leading a creative culture and leading design processes
New business design
Generative leadership and designing for outcomes
Capstone project and mastering creative and design leadership

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-26 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-09-03 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

Credits

60 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Barcelona, Spain

Disciplines

Design Leadership View 15 other Masters in Leadership in Spain

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Accessing with a previous University Degree: To access the Masters and Postgraduate programmes, applicants are required to have an official undergraduate degree or equivalent.
Accessing without a University Degree: Applicants without a University Degree title are eligible to access the programmes through proven professional experience or by proving significant knowledge in the relevant studies area. These applicants will receive a University Specialist Certificate.
Curriculum Vitae
Motivation letter
Portfolio or a link to a digital portfolio / personal web
Passport (NON-UE) / ID (EU)

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

13250 EUR / year

≈ 13250 EUR / year
EU/EEA Applies to you

Applies to you

EU/EEA Nationals

13250 EUR / year

≈ 13250 EUR / year

Living costs

Barcelona

Spain

770 - 1360 EUR / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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