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
- 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)
- Performance and Mainstreaming Framework for the EU Budget : Empirical Evidence, Analysis and Recommendations
- Begg Ian, Corti Francesco, Liscai Alessandro, Darvas Zsolt, Krystyanczuk Michal, Sekut Kamil, Fiore Anna, Bachtler John, Kah Stefan, Mendez Carlos, van der Valk Odilia
- (2024)
Professional Activities
- 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
- 50th IQ-Net Conference
- Speaker
- 23/6/2021
Projects
- 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
- JRC 2: Research for Practitioner Handbook for implementing Integrated Territorial Development strategies
- Ferry, Martin (Principal Investigator) Kah, Stefan (Co-investigator)
- Research contributing to a European Commission practitioner Handbook for implementing EU-funded integrated territorial development strategies.
- 13-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Mr
Stefan
Kah
Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Email: stefan.kah@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3955