The Creative Thinking Programme was set up in October 1992 in collaboration with Professor Edward de Bono, the inventor of Lateral Thinking. The setting up of this programme has involved the teaching of Creative Thinking and Thinking Skills as a subject on an interdisciplinary basis within various faculties including the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy and the Institute of Health Care.

The University of Malta seeks to respond innovatively to the unceasing evolution of the global and the local context in general, and to the economic challenge in particular. This commitment to flexibility is directing the University of Malta towards new areas. In a changing environment the future is not necessarily a repetition of the past. There is a central role for human thinking processes to cope with and make the best of the changes which are occuring all around us. All the activities of the programme therefore focus directly on the skills of creativity and design.