Michael Kuhn is a policy analyst and Director of the Forum for European Regional Research at the University of Bremen in Germany. He received his diploma in architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, his diploma in educational theory at the Freie Universitat Berlin, and his Ph.D. in philosophies at the University of Bremen. He has worked on numerous international research and development projects, mainly under programmes of the European Union. Michael Kuhn has been project coordinator of six socio-economic research projects under European social research programmes.