Bernd Schuh
Regional and environmental economy, member of the board
The tasks at ÖIR comprise evaluations particularly of EU policy instruments and programmes (structural funds, rural development, CBC programmes, etc.); project leader and project work in research projects in the area of European Spatial Observatory network as well in European programme for rural development (key expert for quantitative procedures for the evaluation within the European Evaluation Network for Rural Development); policy consulting projects in the area policy (e.g. for the Styrian government) and development cooperation (e.g. Austrian Development Agency - Regional Development Centre Suhareka - Kosovo).
Education
- Study of commercial sciences and business administration at the University of Economics of Vienna (speciality - behavioural management - courses in the area of hospital management)
- International Postgraduate Course on MCDA methods - Multi-criteria Analysis and Decision Aid Techniques and methods of multi-criteria analysis
Professional Career
- member of the board (since March 2009)
- Österreichisches Institut für Raumplanung (ÖIR) (since 2003)
- University lectures at the University of Economics of Vienna and the University of Vienna for the areas environmental economy, ecologic economy, agricultural economy, resource economy, regional development (since 1996)
- Research assistant: Institute for regional and environment economy of Vienna (previously Interdisciplinary Institute for Environment and Economy) (1992-2003)
- Project manager, speaker and coordinator of the initiative to found an "Öko-Bank" (ecologically-oriented bank) in Austria (1995-1996)
- Militial officer: Medical logistics and hospital management as well as liaison officer for the civilian medical and disaster deployment offices of the Land (Styria) and federal government. 1991 - UN deployment - UNAFHIR (United Nation Austrian Field Hospital in Iran) (1985-2006)
Reference projects (selection, links partly german)
- TERESA – Types of interaction between Environment, Rural Economy, Society and Agriculture in European regions (2007-2009)
- Ex-Post-Evaluierung der Programme der Kohäsionspolitik (2008)
- Integrative Regionalentwicklung Suharekë, Kosovo (2007)
- Synthese der Halbzeit-Evaluierungen der LEADER+-Programme (2005-2006)
- ESPON (2003-2006)
- Das nachhaltige Krankenhaus (2005)
- Evaluation der Regionalmanagementstellen Steiermark (2004-2005)
- Flussbauliches Gesamtprojekt Donau östlich von Wien (ab 2003, laufend)
- Evaluierungen von EU-Programmen und Strategien
- Briefing Note: Administrative costs for farmers and forests owners with lands in NATURA 2000 areas (2007-2008)
- Briefing Note: Reflection on the possibilities for the future development of the CAP – the rural development perspectives (2007-2008)
- Potentials for Regional Policy Instruments 2007-2013 to contribute the Lisbon and Göteborg objectives for growth, jobs and sustainable development (2007-2008)
- The legacy of LEADER – Key messages for the final seminar of the LEADER+ programme (2007)
- Evaluation in LEADER – the friendly alien? – What you wanted to know about evaluations but never dared to ask (2007)
- EuroMARC Mountain Agrofood products in Europe, their consumers, retailers and local initiatives (2007-2009)
- International Benchmarking of Styrian government economic support measures compared with those of four European regions (2004-2005)
- Evaluation der Regionalen Entwicklungskonzepte – Sachsen (2004-2006)
- Evaluation des Forschungsprogrammes Economic Sustainability – Regionale Aspekte (2003-2004)
- Evaluation nachhaltiger städtischer Entwicklung – regionale Politikfeldintegration in Wien (2001-2002)
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