Mr Stefan Kah
Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Personal statement
Stefan Kah is a Research & Knowledge Exchange Fellow in EPRC and specialises in research on Alpine and South-Eastern Europe. He specialises in research on Alpine and South-Eastern Europe, where he has conducted a series of studies on regional policy and the design and implementation of EU Cohesion policy in Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia and studies of regional development and regional policy in Switzerland. He is network manager of the IQ-Net consortium on the exchange of experiences with Structural Funds implementation and has undertaken evaluation research on a major ex post evaluation study of the management and implementation of the European Regional Development Fund. His interests also lie in rural development, specifically the role of food products as catalysts for regional development and landscape conservation in rural areas. He has carried out studies on food products and their role in preserving a cultural landscape in the Cinque Terre National Park in Italy, the Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal in Austria and in the context of a transnational project between Spain, Austria and Poland. Before joining EPRC, he worked as quality manager at the INTERACT Point ‘Managing Transition and External Cooperation’ in Vienna and in Switzerland on a feasibility project for the national park Parc Adula.
Publications
- Evidence and indicators in practical strategy & policy implementation
- Kahila Petri, Halme Juha, Tillikainen Antti, Georgieva Neli, Vironen Heidi, Fonseca Liliana, Kah Stefan
- (2023)
- CLLD in the 2014–2020 EU Programming Period : an innovative framework for local development
- Kah Stefan, Martinos Haris, Budzich-Tabor Urszula
- World Vol 4, pp. 122-139 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/world4010009
- Addressing the challenges of the social and territorial cohesion in National Recovery and Resilience Plans : a preliminary assessment
- Ferry Martin, Kah Stefan, Fonseca Liliana
- (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.2861/129564
- EU Cohesion Policy in Non-Urban Areas
- Kah Stefan, Georgieva Neli, Fonseca Liliana
- (2020)
- Bio-based strategies and roadmaps for enhanced rural and regional development in the EU
- Colmorgen Felix, Khawaja Cosette, Rutz Dominik, Gerdes Holger, Kiresiewa Zoritza, Anzaldúa Gerardo, Tarpey John, Tröltzsch Jenny, Davies Sara, Kah Stefan, João Elsa, Georgieva Neli, Mannhardt Boris, Herlitze Ines, Robijns Clément, Stoyanov Martin, Metzova Ludmila, Pavlova Iliana, Mihajloska Emilija, Gjorgievski Vladimir, Markovska Natasa, Duic Neven, Pauna Carmen, Iorgulescu Raluca, Diaconescu Tiberiu, Cosnita Daniel, Simonescu Mihaela, Lazdina Dagnija, Makovskis Kristaps, Neimane Santa, Rakowski Marcin, Szulecka Olga, Mytlewski Adam, Skrzynska Dorota
- European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, pp. 982-986 (2020)
- Meeting the challenges of digitalisation : implications for regional and rural development
- Vironen Heidi, Kah Stefan
- (2019)
Professional Activities
- 45th Annual Meeting of European Regional Policy Research Consortium (EoRPA)
- Speaker
- 6/10/2024
- IQ-Net Coffee Break Workshop to IQ-Net Network of European Policymakers, Online
- Speaker
- 21/2/2023
- IQ-Net Coffee Break Workshop to IQ-Net Network of European Policymakers, Online
- Speaker
- 18/5/2021
- 29th IQ-Net Conference
- Participant
- 12/2010
- 31st Meeting of EoRPA
- Speaker
- 10/2010
- Food Lab conference
- Speaker
- 9/2010
Projects
- 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-Dec-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-Nov-2022 - 23-May-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-Sep-2022 - 31-Aug-2026
- Territorial Development Strategies
- Ferry, Martin (Principal Investigator) Kah, Stefan (Research Co-investigator)
- 13-Oct-2021 - 31-Dec-2021
- Study on Municipal use of EU Cohesion Funds in response to COVID-19
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Ferry, Martin (Co-investigator) Kah, Stefan (Co-investigator)
- 19-Sep-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
- EU Cohesion Policy in non-urban areas
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Kah, Stefan (Co-investigator)
- 04-Jun-2020 - 03-Nov-2020
Contact
Mr
Stefan
Kah
Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Email: stefan.kah@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3955