Federal Institute
Mountain Areas Research and Regional Development

DI Klaus WAGNER

Mountain Areas Research and Regional Development
Dietrichgasse 27
1030 Vienna
 +43 (1) 71100 - 637426
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Head of Department of Mountain Research and Regional Development at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna/AT (since 2019)
Research associate at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna/AT (since 2019)
Research associate at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Vienna/AT (1987-2018)
Studies of Spatial Planning and regional Research at the  University of Technology, Vienna/AT (DI 1986)

Main fields of work:

  • EU Structural Funds and research projects
  • Rural development
  • Multifunctionality
  • Evaluation
  • Regional analyses

Participation in committees:

  • Participation in subcommittees of the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning (ÖROK)
  • Participation in diverse working groups focusing on regional statistics and/or economies

BAB 066/23: Empowering Rural Communities to Act for Change - RURACTIVE (Horizon Europe Projekt)

Around one third of EU citizens (two thirds in Austria) live in rural regions, but GDP per capita there is below average. The inequalities between urban and rural communities in...

BAB 063/22: Communicating roots: co-learning to improve rural resilience and governance - CoROOTS (ERASMUS+ Projekt)

Co-learning methods to improve resilience management in rural areas The project was applied for on the initiative of the Prout Research Institute in Portugal in order to enable a scientific...

BAB 062/22: Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes - RUSTIK

Horizon Europe Projekt The project has been tendered in the Horizon Europe Programme under the thematic area of promoting "resilient rural communities" under the title "Grasping rural diversity...

BAB 033/20: Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles (ERASMUS Project UniClaD)

Initial situation Participation in clusters enables higher education institutions to provide students at different performance levels with practical activities in various projects. In...

BAB 028/19: Integrated Flood Risk Management in Mountain Areas

Assessing Sectoral Interdependencies, Conflicts and Options for Policy Coordination Initial situation Since 1980, Europe has been affected by around 700 damaging flood events, causing over...

AWI 185/18EU: LIVERUR – The Living Lab concept in rural areas

Initial situation Against the background of the Europe 2020 Strategy (smart, sustainable, inclusive growth) and the challenges of migration from rural regions as well as a high average age of the...

AWI/60/18 W: Evaluation of the Rural Development Program 2014-2020: Technical Assistance

The Federal Institute for Agriculture was involved in various stages of the evaluations of the Rural Development Programmes as well as in the ex ante evaluation of the 2014-2020 programme. Now the...

AWI/49/16 W: Functions and services of agriculture and their value to society

Agriculture provides a wide range of functions and services that go far beyond the cultivation of agricultural land and the production of food. In addition to pure agricultural production or...

AWI 178/16 EU: SIMRA-Social Innovations in Marginalised Rural Areas (H2020 Project)

Initial situation Against the background of the Europe 2020 Strategy (smart, sustainable, inclusive growth), regionally very different developments are a challenge for rural development. Social...

BAB 012/05: Structuring and management of the data pool

Initial situation Work on facilitating access to and use of the INVEKOS data has so far been carried out mainly by Department II/1 of the BML. The current scope of the data offered is documented...
Dietrichgasse 27
1030 Wien
 +43 (1) 71100 - 637415

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