Mr Stefan Kah
Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Personal statement
Stefan Kah is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at EPRC and specialises in research and knowledge exchange in the fields of Cohesion Policy and regional development in both its urban and rural dimensions. He has particular expertise in Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Switzerland. One of his main areas of expertise is the territorial dimension of regional development and Cohesion Policy, especially regarding Integrated Territorial Investments (ITIs) and Community-led Local Development (CLLD). Over the years, he has gained significant expertise with the strategic design and practical implementation of Cohesion Policy programmes, e.g. as Network Manager of the IQ-Net knowledge exchange programme. Other areas of expertise smart specialisation policies and the interplay between different EU funding streams. Stefan is also working as Capacity Building Advisor on integrated territorial development for the United Nations Operational Project Service (UNOPS) in Serbia and a peer review expert for the European Urban Initiative (EUI). He has prior professional experience from the INTERACT Programme in Vienna, at a regional development agency in Switzerland and from the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) in Liechtenstein. He speaks fluent German, English and Italian.
Prize And Awards
Publications
- Territorialising Development Policies in Europe : a Review of Current Practice
- Kah Stefan, Ferry Martin
- (2025)
- Integrated territorial investments : place-based cohesion policy in practice?
- Ferry Martin, Kah Stefan, McMaster Irene
- Public Policy Portuguese Journal Vol 9, pp. 10-23 (2024)
- The Rise of the Small Town : Policies for Small and Medium-sized Towns
- Kah Stefan
- (2024)
- Supporting the green transition through place-based tools grounded in local needs
- Kah Stefan
- Rural Vision Magazine Empowering Rural Europe (2024) (2024)
- Book review: The rural enterprise economy edited by Birgit Leick, Susanne Gretzinger and Teemu Makkonen, London, Routledge (2021), xix + 251 pp. £108.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-367-47187-3, £31.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-032-11801-7, £31.99 (ebk), ISBN 978-1-003-03400-1. https://www.routledge.com/The-Rural-Enterprise-Economy/Leick-Gretzinger-Makkonen/p/book/9781032118017
- Kah Stefan
- Regional Studies, Regional Science Vol 58, pp. 1653–1654 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2347797
- Multi-funded CLLD : Background paper and outcomes of EU CAP Network workshop
- Kah Stefan
- EU CAP Network workshop on LEADER and Multi-funded CLLD (2024)
Professional Activities
- 46th Annual Meeting of European Regional Policy Research Consortium (EoRPA)
- Speaker
- 5/10/2025
- 45th Annual Meeting of European Regional Policy Research Consortium (EoRPA)
- Speaker
- 6/10/2024
- Seminar 'Emerging insights from Ex post Evaluation of Cohesion policy territorial instruments'
- Participant
- 10/4/2024
- European Union Urban Initiative
- Invited speaker
- 1/3/2023
- IQ-Net Coffee Break Workshop to IQ-Net Network of European Policymakers, Online
- Speaker
- 21/2/2023
- 52nd IQ-Net Conference
- Speaker
- 21/6/2022
Projects
- Collecting and analysing data for the post-27 INTERREG
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Vironen, Heidi (Academic) Georgieva, Neli (Researcher) Kah, Stefan (Academic)
- The ESPON project “Collecting and analysing data for the post-27 INTERREG“ (Core-IB) is implemented within the framework of the ESPON Thematic Action Plan (TAP): Living, working and travelling across borders. The aim is to provide evidence-based analyses that contribute to the definition and the future orientation of the next generation of INTERREG post-2027. It addresses a multitude of stakeholders across the multi-level governance system, including the member states and the European Commission. The spatial focus of the project covers all EU internal cross-border regions across the entire ESPON Programme area, including regions on inland borders with Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
- 13-Jan-2025 - 12-Jan-2026
- Regional Policy in Europe: A Comparative Assessment (EoRPA_CH_25_27)
- Mendez, Carlos (Principal Investigator) Bachtler, John (Co-investigator) Downes, Ruth (Research Co-investigator) Kah, Stefan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
- Regional Policy in Europe: A Comparative Assessment (EoRPA_AT_24_26)
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Mendez, Carlos (Co-investigator) Downes, Ruth (Research Co-investigator) Kah, Stefan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Ex post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 2014-2020 financed by the ERDF. Work Package 13 - Integrated territorial development
- Ferry, Martin (Principal Investigator) Bachtler, John (Co-investigator) Kah, Stefan (Research Co-investigator) Georgieva, Neli (Researcher)
- 24-Jan-2022 - 23-Jan-2024
- Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes
- Vironen, Heidi (Principal Investigator) Kah, Stefan (Co-investigator) Georgieva, Neli (Researcher) Fonseca, Liliana (Researcher)
- To enable rural communities’ actors and policy makers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural areas, through advancing our understanding of different rural functionalities, characteristics and future scenarios of rural areas, their potentials and challenges.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- Territorial Development Strategies
- Ferry, Martin (Principal Investigator) Kah, Stefan (Research Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
Contact
Mr
Stefan
Kah
Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Email: stefan.kah@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3955