@article {4370,
	title = {Los proyectos JESSICA como catalizadores del desarrollo urbano sostenible en Polonia},
	journal = {CEPAL Serie Seminarion y Conferencias "Los desaf{\'\i}os de la planificaci{\'o}n para el desarrollo en Am{\'e}rica Latina y el Caribe: algoritmos, metodolog{\'\i}as y experiencias"},
	volume = {95},
	year = {2023},
	month = {02/2023},
	pages = {203-222},
	chapter = {203},
	abstract = {Una de las consecuencias negativas de los procesos de desarrollo que han tenido lugar en la Uni{\'o}n Europea son las disparidades en el desarrollo de las ciudades y zonas urbanas, que afectan tanto a los ciudadanos como al nivel de actividad econ{\'o}mica, lo que puede conducir a la degradaci{\'o}n del propio espacio. Las disparidades pueden entenderse como el resultado de un fallo del mercado. Por lo tanto, es preciso llevar a cabo intervenciones que guarden relaci{\'o}n con un proceso de regeneraci{\'o}n. A fin de abordar este problema, la Comisi{\'o}n Europea decidi{\'o} presentar la iniciativa de Ayuda Europea Conjunta en Apoyo de Inversiones Sostenibles en Zonas Urbanas (JESSICA), como parte de la pol{\'\i}tica de cohesi{\'o}n ejecutada en el per{\'\i}odo comprendido entre 2007 y 2013. JESSICA es un instrumento financiero rotatorio que se centra en el desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades, y 11 Estados miembros decidieron poner a prueba la soluci{\'o}n propuesta. El primer pa{\'\i}s en firmar el acuerdo fue Polonia, que implant{\'o} JESSICA en cinco regiones (Pomorskie, Mazowieckie, {\'S}l{\k a}skie, Wielkopolskie y Zachodniopomorskie). Este enfoque innovador entra{\~n}{\'o} numerosos desaf{\'\i}os para todas las partes interesadas (actores europeos, regionales y locales procedentes tanto del sectorp{\'u}blico como del privado) que participaron en la planificaci{\'o}n y la implementaci{\'o}n de la iniciativa. La metodolog{\'\i}a empleada se basa en el paradigma positivista, que examina las relaciones causales entre las intervenciones p{\'u}blicas (proyectos) y sus efectos. Se ha adoptado un enfoque realista en las t{\'e}cnicas de evaluaci{\'o}n, as{\'\i} como en nuestra propia evaluaci{\'o}n de todos los proyectos, realizada por expertos, que se han fundamentado a trav{\'e}s de numerosas herramientas anal{\'\i}ticas como el agrupamiento jer{\'a}rquico y aglomerativo. De las principales conclusiones del estudio se desprende que los proyectos ejecutados en Polonia tan solo cumplen parcialmente los supuestos te{\'o}ricos, y que las imensiones social y horizontal del desarrollo sostenible han estado infrarrepresentadas. Se observan ciertas divergencias a nivel regional en lo que respecta al enfoque modelo, y una regi{\'o}n destaca en cuanto a la calidad de los proyectos (Zachodniopomorskie). Los proyectos relacionados con el patrimonio hist{\'o}rico o cultural, seguidos de los que se centran en la reconversi{\'o}n de los terrenos industriales abandonados, son los que mejor reflejan la complejidad del desarrollo urbano sostenible},
	keywords = {EU, EU funds, financial engineering, JESSICA, Poland, sustainable development, urban regeneration},
	issn = {1680-9041},
	url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48685},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak}
}
@book {4353,
	title = {Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU Reflections on the JESSICA Initiative},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {1-243},
	publisher = {De Gruyter},
	organization = {De Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin/ Boston},
	abstract = {This theoretically rooted and research-based book provides insights on the JESSICA funding model which {\textendash} unlike the traditional non-repayable aid {\textendash} focuses on supporting sustainable urban development projects in a repayable and recyclable way. Looking through the lens of the JESSICA financial engineering mechanism used in urban transformation, it examines the functioning and performance thereof and formulates policy recommendations for the future. The aim of this volume is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the JESSICA sustainable funding model by exploring its repayable assistance mechanism to support sustainable urban development projects. The authors make several noteworthy contributions to the literature on EU cohesion policy and shed light on the use of the repayable instruments within public interventions, while providing, for the first time, a critical analysis of the JESSICA sustainable funding model from the holistic perspective which is especially relevant for supporting sustainable urban development. Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU provides policy-significant findings that are important for EU cohesion policy in the field of repayable assistance to be reinvested in the long term in urban and regional transformation. Includes an in-depth exploration of the particular aspects of EU cohesion policy Provides theoretical discussion and empirics illustrated by figures and maps. 
Contributors are experts, representing policy-oriented and academic research.},
	keywords = {cohesion policy, EU, EU funds, financial engineering, JESSICA, Poland, urban development, urban policy, urban regeneration},
	isbn = {9783110762198},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762198},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110762198/html$\#$overview},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska}
}
@article {4326,
	title = {Spatial Distribution of JESSICA  Funding Across Polish Municipalities. Perspective of Territorial Dimension  of EU Cohesion Policy},
	journal = {Studia Regionalne i Lokalne},
	year = {2021},
	month = {10/2021},
	pages = {7-20},
	chapter = {7},
	abstract = {The JESSICA initiative was set up to provide a more sustainable and efficient response to the needs of urban areas, as compared to non-repayable grants. Anchored in the literature on place-based policy and territorial cohesion, this paper addresses the question how the JESSICA funds were allocated among Polish cities {\textendash} whether, intuitively, only to key urban centres, or to smaller cities as well. The results illustrate that the repayable assistance of JESSICA was dispersed throughout the regions, although the degree of dispersion remains mixed across them. Almost half of the JESSICA funds was transferred to small and medium-sized cities. It was also found that the bulk of the assistance went to the projects that were implemented in cities situated within metropolitan areas of the regional capital cities.},
	keywords = {cities, cohesion policy, JESSICA initiative, Poland, standard deviational ellipse, territorial cohesion},
	doi = {10.7366/1509499538501},
	url = {https://studreg.uw.edu.pl/dane/web_sril_files/1746/2021_3_idczak_mrozik.pdf},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Karol Mrozik and Ida Musia{\l}kowska}
}
@article {4323,
	title = {Urban Regeneration as a Specific Type of Public Policy Response to Urban Decline. The Case of Poland},
	journal = {Open Political Science},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2021},
	month = {08/2021},
	pages = {204-218},
	chapter = {204},
	abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;">The paper examines the issue of whether the process of policy formulation and implementation on urban regeneration in Poland is done pursuant to the rules of a cycle of public policy-making. This is carried out through the use of the functioning cycle of public policy in Poland proposed by Zyba{\l}a (2015) that stresses the specificities of Polish conditions in the public policy-making. Hence, the aim of the study is to provide an overview of public policy-making on urban regeneration in the context of legislative and institutional-administrative practices. In the light of increasingly complex challenges faced by cities, there is a need for the necessary counter-balancing regeneration measures taking a form of state sponsored public policy. Therefore, the Act on Regeneration was adopted in 2015. The paper concludes that the adoption of this Act was dominated by the legislator which, with relatively little contribution from other stakeholders, resulted in a rather unambitious set of legal provisions on regeneration that have not substantially changed the instrumental approach of local authorities to urban regeneration.</p>},
	keywords = {Act on Regeneration, functioning cycle of public policy, Poland, public policy, urban regeneration},
	doi = {10.1515/openps-2021-0019},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/openps-2021-0019/html},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska}
}
@article {4150,
	title = {Is the JESSICA initiative truly repayable instrument? The Polish case study},
	journal = {Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wroc{\l}awiu},
	year = {2018},
	month = {04/2019},
	pages = {142-151},
	chapter = {142},
	abstract = {The JESSICA initiative introduced under the EU Cohesion Policy as revolving instrument, aimed at the regeneration processes and sustainable development of the cities. One of its main assumptions was to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the projects supported by JESSICA. The paper aims to identify whether all the projects implemented in Poland in the years 2007-2015 bring revenue and whether there is a relationship between the amount of the JESSICA loans/projects and the legal form of beneficiaries. The Polish case study based on the analysis of all the projects implemented in the five regions reveals that not all the projects bring revenues from their main operations. The legal form of a beneficiary plays also an important role with regard to the size of the loan/the value of the projects and determines a type of the results (economic, social) achieved by the projects. Thus, the recommendations for policy-makers responsible for the implementation of JESSICA 2 can be formulated.},
	keywords = {JESSICA; regeneration; revenue-generating projects; Cohesion Policy, Poland},
	issn = {2392-0041},
	doi = { 10.15611/pn.2018.536.13},
	url = {https://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication/109385/edition/61927/content?ref=L2NvbGxlY3Rpb25kZXNjcmlwdGlvbi8yNTQ},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak}
}
@article {3954,
	title = {Non-profit leadership at local level: Reflections from Central and Eastern Europe},
	journal = {Local Economy},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2017},
	month = {06/2017},
	pages = {297-315},
	abstract = {Successful leadership in local development requires not only a vision, but good communication skills, stakeholder involvement, strategic planning and coordination and popular support via public participation. Our empirical study contributes to filling the gap in the literature about the role of non-profit leadership in urban and regional development. We study the characteristics of politicians in civil society and that of civil society{\textquoteright}s leaders in politics as a prerequisite for successful local development. For this, we draw on the survey data of 374 local politicians from four large cities in Central Europe: Prague, Bratislava, Budapest and Pozna{\'n}. The research affirms that non-profit non-governmental organisations do play an important role in local development and reveals similarities in all analysed cities, though with some variance. Local political elites are identified as engaging significantly in civil society organisations, despite low levels of general trust in these countries. About two-thirds of the local politicians who took part in the survey participate actively in civil society organisations in their respective cities but not coming from a previous non-profit non-governmental organisation employment. Not only are they active, but many of them also have positions as managers or directors, or as members of the board of directors in these organisations. Although neither membership nor leadership in non-profit non-governmental organisations appears to increase a local politician{\textquoteright}s chance of being elected, except when those are engaged in local development or environmental issues. As spatial leadership plays an important role in the construction of new agendas and identities we have also investigated the views of local politicians on decentralisation, government service provision efficiency and the importance of several local policy topics, and found some puzzling differences across our V4 cities that possibly reflect cultural differences. Non-profit leadership in urban development is a neglected topic so far in the literature, our study adds empirical results from Central and Eastern Europe, yet there is ample room for future research.},
	keywords = {Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, Hungary, leadership, local development, local elections, non-profit organizations, Poland, Slovakia},
	issn = {1470-9325 },
	doi = {10.1177/0269094217707281},
	url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0269094217707281},
	author = {Oto Potluka and Judit Kalman and Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak}
}
@inbook {3924,
	title = {The use of repayable financial instruments in the process of regeneration of degraded urban areas on the example of the JESSICA initiative},
	booktitle = {Changes and Challenges in the Modern World Economy},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {115-136},
	publisher = {PUEB Press},
	organization = {PUEB Press},
	edition = {1},
	address = {Pozna{\'n}},
	keywords = {EU funds, financial instruments, JESSICA, Poland, regeneration, urban areas, Wielkopolskie},
	isbn = {978-83-7417-918-8},
	url = {https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/12083},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak}
}
@article {2879,
	title = {Assessment of the System of Project Selection under the Cohesion Policy "The Case of the Wielkopolska Region"},
	journal = {Evalua{\v c}n{\'\i} teorie a praxe},
	volume = {2014},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {69-98},
	chapter = {69},
	abstract = {<p>The current year 2014 allows/has allowed for the first attempts to evaluate the operations, organization and implementation of the Cohesion Policy 2007-2013. The authors have analysed one of the elements that might have an impact on the results obtained under the regional operational programme in the Wielkopolska region in Poland, namely the modes of\&nbsp;the\&nbsp;selection of projects. This element of the whole cycle of projects is an\&nbsp;under-researched subject of scientific analyses even though the project selection itself has been deeply examined by (various) control institutions (the European Court of Auditors, Supreme Audit Offices etc.). The authors use evaluation concepts and a strategic management lens, and formulate five research questions on: the conditions necessary for the transparency of project selection, the main factors determining the choice of the adopted selection mode, the impact of the selection mode on the results, the quality of the work of experts, and the efficiency of the appeal procedures for\&nbsp;beneficiaries {\textendash} trying to answer all these questions in the subsequent sections of the article. The methods used comprise analyses of legislation, reports, primary data and in-depth-interviews with the stakeholders. The\&nbsp;research has also practical implications and can be a valuable case-study for policy-makers.</p>},
	keywords = {cohesion policy, EU funds, evaluation, Poland, selection of projects, Wielkopolska region, Wielkopolska Regional Operational Programme},
	issn = {2336-114X},
	url = {https://www.evaltep.cz/inpage/assessment-wielkopolska/},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska}
}
@article {Idczak2012b,
	title = {The Priorities of Poland{\textquoteright}s Presidency in the Council of the European Union},
	journal = {Przegl{\k a}d Zachodni. Polska Niemcy Europa. Special Issue},
	volume = {Special Issue},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {287-307},
	url = {http://www.iz.poznan.pl/pz/news/9_15. Idczak.pdf}
}
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