@article {4472,
	title = {Contributing to territorial cohesion by EU cohesion policy financial instrument? The JESSICA implementation in Poland},
	journal = {European Planning Studies},
	volume = {33},
	year = {2025},
	month = {09/2025},
	pages = {1023},
	abstract = {The paper examines the territorial distribution of the JESSICA funding support (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas), a financial engineering instrument of EU Cohesion Policy among Polish cities. It addresses an existing gap in the literature and provides an analysis of a spatial distribution of repayable assistance, which is absent in CP studies. The study i) provides a comprehensive overview of the spatial distribution of the JESSICA funding across cities within particular regions, focusing on smaller cities regarded as secondary territorial cohesion cities (ScTCC) that should play an important role in territorialized development policy; (ii) assesses to what extent the JESSICA projects in SCTCC fit in with spatial-functional arrangements laid down in the regional spatial management plans; (iii) determines factors of the attractiveness of ScTCC as the JESSICA beneficiaries. Results confirm that ScTCC have enough capacities to implement revolving instrument projects, outperformed the capital cities in implementing the JESSICA projects, and are important but under-researched and under-represented actors of the urban and cohesion policy.},
	keywords = {cohesion policy, financial engineering instruments, JESSICA initiative, Poland, secondary territorial cohesion cities (ScTCC), territorial cohesion},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2550988},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2025.2550988?src=exp-la},
	author = {Musia{\l}kowska, Ida and Piotr Idczak}
}
@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}
}
