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角色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，教育机构需要超越追逐快速变化的技术和商业实践，而将重点放在通过与行业合作设计和提供的正式培训、工作经验和非正式实践，培养年轻人共同生产技能。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，并确定最佳实践，以支持年轻人成为创意人才。团队成员互访利物浦和上海将创造机会，建立新的商业伙伴关系，发展教育和工业培训条款，并创建一个研究创意职业道路的联合项目，这将增加英国和中国之间的创意人才流动。两个国际财团将在上海和利物浦举行。它们将为不同的关键利益相关者（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，以培养创造性人才，并确定具有文化特异性的创新实践，并可用于制定培训规定。这将为利物浦和上海之间的研究和产业交流带来丰富的机会，建立在两个城市共同的遗产和强大的政治、文化和经济关系的基础上。建议的活动亦会成为日后申请发展国际创意人才的主要研究补助金的基础，例如ESRC研究补助金。

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.