Creative Network Plus: Baseline Research and Development Project (BREDEP)

截至2017年底，迫害、暴力和战争迫使6800多万人逃离家园，到国外寻求安全，超过了全球被迫流离失所的历史记录。（联合国难民署，2018）尽管许多难民收容国是低收入和中等收入国家，往往没有足够的资源来满足这种难民涌入的需求。人们认识到，文化和创意产业（CCIs）为促进RHCs收容社区与难民之间的文化间对话做出了积极贡献（教科文组织，2018年）。然而，技术能否扩大这种创造力，使之成为发展中国家融入社会或获得职业教育和培训（VET）的“推动者”？鉴于资源不足和缺乏必要的基础设施来促进急需的包容性难民融合系统，以及将重点放在中小学入学和人道主义干预上，从难民中心的角度来看，只有薄弱的研究证据。作为GCRF冲突与危机研究教育项目的一部分，该项目旨在为跨学科的艺术和社会科学网络+（创意网络）提供基础研究，该网络旨在调查技术创新（移动和数字）如何支持难民青年（16-32岁的年轻人）的cci，这将使世界十大难民青年中六个国家（土耳其、乌干达、巴基斯坦、孟加拉国、黎巴嫩和埃塞俄比亚）的网络托管社区更好地融入和获得职业教育。该项目将促进我们的理论认识，建立强大、公平和可持续的伙伴关系，并支持创意网络利益相关者的参与。该项目以GCRF以前资助的项目（如“建设未来”和RELIEF项目）的经验为基础，旨在为我们的创意网络的合作者和合作伙伴、当地社区和更广泛的利益相关者确定、增加和促进公平和可持续的机会，共同设计想法，以支持整个网络+提案。我们将采用定性、联合制作和行动研究的方法，与高等教育机构和区域研究机构的研究人员合作，并与联合国难民署、联合国教科文组织、联合国儿童基金会、武装暴力行动、芬兰教会援助、人居署、Multeciler等合作伙伴合作。”我们将通过开展利益相关者测绘活动开始项目，包括确定和谈判不同的难民青年和群体，以及其他利益相关者（如社区领导人、政府代表、项目合作伙伴、职业教育代表、包括ecr在内的学者等）；对当地和国际政策和计划进行严格审查，以突出创新实践，以及需要进一步调查的领域。我们将通过小型会议和利益相关者参与活动（SEE）建立初步对话，以了解当地背景和历史、文化、宗教、语言、性别和平等方面的敏感性，以及它们之间的交集。我们还旨在了解每个国家cci创新概念验证（PoC）的初始想法，以进一步发展变革理论/途径，以影响相关的RHC背景。此外，我们将与来自RHC伙伴国家的早期职业研究人员和共同研究人员一起举办研究培训课程；试点和测试创意网络提议的与利益相关者接触的方法/方法，例如，虚拟网络研讨会和社交媒体工具，如Facebook Live、YouTube等，以及在每个案例国家向10-15名年轻人提供技能MOOC。为了确保长期遗产，我们将通过不同的社交媒体渠道创建一个全球难民研究网络（GRRN）。

By the end of 2017, persecution, violence and war had forced over 68 million people to flee their home nations and seek safety in foreign countries, which exceeds all previous records for global forced displacement (UNHCR, 2018). Despite of the many refugee-hosting countries (RHC) being low and middle-income countries ( LMICs), often with inadequate resources to meet the demands of this refugee influx. It has been recognised that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have positively contributed towards fostering intercultural dialogue between host communities and refugees in RHCs (UNESCO, 2018). However, could technologies scale up such creativity to act as an 'enabler' for RY integration or access to vocational education and training (VET) the RHCs? Given the insufficient resources and lack of necessary infrastructure to facilitate much needed inclusive refugee integration systems, and the focus being put on primary and secondary school enrolment as well as humanitarian interventions, there is only weak research evidence from RHCs' perspective.Developed as a part of the GCRF Education in Conflict and Crisis Research portfolio, this project is aimed at providing baseline research for an interdisciplinary arts and social science network plus- (Creative Network) which aims to investigate how innovations in technologies (mobile and digital) can support CCIs for Refugee Youth (RY) (young people aged 16-32 years) that will enable better integration and access to VET in the Network-hosting communities of 6 of the world's top 10 RHCs - Turkey, Uganda, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon and Ethiopia. This project will advance our theoretical understanding, build strong, equitable and sustainable partnerships, and support the engagement of the Creative Network's stakeholders. Building on knowledge gained through the experiences of previously funded GCRF projects such as the 'Building futures' and RELIEF projects, this project aims to identify, increase and promote equitable and sustainable opportunities for our Creative Network's collaborators and partners, local communities and wider stakeholders to co-design ideas to support the full Network plus proposal. Adopting qualitative, co-production and action-research methodologies, we will work in partnership with researchers at HEIs and IROs across the case RHCs, and collaborating partners such as UNHCR, UNESCO, UNICEF, Action on Armed Violence, Finn Church Aid, Habitat, Multeciler etc". We will begin the project by undertaking stakeholder mapping activities that includes identifying and negotiating access to different refugee youth and groups, and other stakeholders (e.g. community leaders, Government representative, project partners, VET representatives, academics including ECRs etc.); carrying out a critical review of local and international policies and programmes of RY integration and VET in each RHC, in order to highlight innovative practice, as well as areas that require further investigation. we will establish preliminary dialogues through small meetings and Stakeholder Engagement Event (SEE) to understand local contexts and sensitivities around historic, cultural, religious, linguistic, gender and equality, and the intersections between them. We also aim to understand initial ideas for innovative Proof of Concepts (PoC) in CCIs in each country to further the development of theories of change/pathways to impact in relevant RHC context. Additionally, we will run research training sessions with a sample of Early Career Researchers and Co-Investigators based in RHC partner countries; pilot and test the Creative Network's proposed methods/approaches of engagement with stakeholders, for example, Virtual Webinars and social media tools such as Facebook Live, YouTube etc., as well as delivering a skills MOOC to a sample of 10-15 RY in each case country. In securing a long-term legacy, we will create a Global Refugee Research Network (GRRN) over different social media channels.