Ms Rona Michie
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Personal statement
Rona Michie is a Knowledge Exchange and Research Fellow at EPRC Delft and EPRC Glasgow. She is currently leading EPRC’s contribution to the Horizon 2020 TRACER project which supports nine target regions across Europe in their transition out of coal and into sustainable energy systems. She also plays a key role in the NICE network (Net Zero Industrial Cluster Exchange), which aims to share knowledge on the transformation of industrial clusters and sites. Another main area of interest is in financial instruments, specifically those funded under EU Cohesion Policy. She has contributed to the EIB’s fi-compass platform of technical assistance to Structural Funds managing authorities in the field of financial instruments. In addition, she has expertise in the comparative analysis of the implementation of Cohesion policy over several decades, and has contributed to a wide range of research projects, including research on: the experience of Cohesion policy programmes with State aid regulations; the analysis of innovative types of business aids in selected European regions; the analysis of the impact of Structural Fund programmes; and innovation initiatives in peripheral areas. She was Managing Editor of the European Structural and Investment Funds journal, a quarterly journal aimed at practitioners and policymakers, from 2013-2019.
Publications
- European Regional Aid and Subsidy Control: A Policy Tool Unevenly Applied? : EoRPA Report 24/4
- Michie Rona
- (2024)
- Circular Economy Policies in Europe : Assessing Regional Policy Integration
- Fonseca Liliana, Michie Rona
- (2024)
- "Everything Everywhere all at Once": Challenging times in Cohesion Policy : Report to the 54th IQ-Net Conference, 15-17 May 2023, Olsztyn, Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland
- Michie Rona, van der Valk Odilia
- (2023)
- Implementing Innovation : Smarter & Greener Actions
- Vironen Heidi, Michie Rona, Fonseca Liliana
- (2022)
- Analytical Report on the Outcomes of the Mobilisation Process in TRACER Target Regions
- Fonseca Liliana, Piskorek Kasia, Michie Rona, Mergner Rita, Janssen Rainer
- (2022)
- Continuity & Change : Balancing Between Two Programme Periods
- Fonseca Liliana, Michie Rona
- (2022)
Professional Activities
- NICE conference on jobs and skills, Dundee
- Chair
- 21/11/2023
- 2nd NICE conference on SME development and entrepreneurship for the transition
- Organiser
- 20/6/2023
- "Everything Everywhere all at Once": Challenging Times in Cohesion Policy
- Speaker
- 16/5/2023
- ERDF financial instruments – fit for 2021-2027
- Participant
- 7/10/2022
- Identifying a vision for energy transition. Mobilising stakeholders in the TRACER target regions
- Speaker
- 30/9/2022
- NICE project 1st conference on regional decarbonisation strategies and access to finance
- Organiser
- 28/9/2022
Projects
- 50 years of EU funding in Scotland
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Michie, Rona (Co-investigator) Maguire, Rachel (Research Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- Ex post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 2014-2020 financed by the ERDF. Work package 10 - Institutional capacity and reform
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) McMaster, Irene (Research Co-investigator) Michie, Rona (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Strategic Management Reform "New Generation Lithuania" Plan
- Ferry, Martin (Principal Investigator) Bachtler, John (Co-investigator) Michie, Rona (Research Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2022 - 02-Jan-2025
- Net Zero Industrial Cluster Exchange
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Michie, Rona (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Net Zero Industrial Cluster Exchange
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Fonseca, Liliana (Administrator) Michie, Rona (Technician) Corbett, Hannah (Researcher)
- The Net Zero Industrial Cluster Exchange (NICE) is a knowledge-sharing platform focusing on how regional and local development strategies can effectively support the transformation of regions and cities towards decarbonisation and net zero. NICE is currently in a pilot phase, running over the period 2022-23 and funded by grant support from the Scottish Government and Michelin.
The aim of NICE is to establish an international network of projects and initiatives to share knowledge on the design and implementation of sustainable and inclusive (just) regional and local industrial transformation strategies responding to decarbonisation. - 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2023
- Research into the Potential to Build Collaborations Established under the Ireland Wales INTERREG Programme to cover other Regions Bordering the Irish Sea
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Michie, Rona (Research Co-investigator)
- 29-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
Contact
Ms
Rona
Michie
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Email: rona.michie@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3061