Supporting Young People to Become International Creative Talents: Educational Enterprise Collaborations between Shanghai and Liverpool

毕业生就业准备以及雇主和教育机构对行业培训的作用和要求的期望不匹配是创意产业面临的关键问题。该项目提出，教育提供者需要超越追逐快速变化的技术和商业实践，并集中精力通过与工业界合作设计和提供的正式培训、工作经验和非正式实践，使年轻人做好共同创造技能的准备。该项目将把研究人员、雇主和创意从业者聚集在一起，建立一个新的国际网络，并确定支持年轻人成为创意人才的最佳做法。团队成员对利物浦和上海的互访将为建立新的商业伙伴关系、发展教育和工业培训提供机会，并创建一个关于创意职业道路的联合研究项目，这将增加英国和中国之间的创意人才流动。两个国际联合体将在上海和利物浦举行。它们将为不同的主要利益相关者（研究人员，学生，创意从业者和雇主）提供空间，分享他们的观点，期望和实践，以培养创意人才，并确定具有文化特色的创新实践，可用于制定培训规定。这将为利物浦和上海之间的研究产业交流带来丰富的机会，建立在两个城市的共同遗产和强大的政治，文化和经济关系的基础上。建议的活动也将成为未来发展国际创意人才的主要研究资助申请的基础，例如ESRC研究资助。

Graduate job readiness and the mismatch of expectations between employers and educational providers on the role and requirements of industry training provision are key issues facing the creative industries. This project proposes that educational providers need to move beyond chasing rapidly changing technology and business practice and concentrate on preparing young people to co-produce skills through formal training, work experience and informal practice, designed and delivered in partnership with industry. This project will bring researchers, employers, and creative practitioners together to establish a new international network and identify best practice to support young people to become creative talents. Team members' mutual visits to Liverpool and Shanghai will create opportunities to establish new business partnerships, develop education and industrial training provisions, and create a joint programme of research into creative career paths, which will increase the flow of creative talent in and between the UK and China. Two international consortiums will be held in Shanghai and Liverpool. They will provide space for different key stakeholders (researchers, students, creative practitioners and employers) to share their perspectives, expectations, and practices to develop creative talents, and identify innovative practices that are culturally-specific and can be used to develop training provisions. This will lead to rich opportunities for research-industry exchanges between Liverpool and Shanghai, building on the two cities' shared heritage and strong political, cultural and economic relations. The proposed activities will also form the basis for a future major research grant application on developing international creative talents, for example ESRC Research Grant.