@article {4409, title = {EU Cohesion Policy towards territorial cohesion?}, journal = {Regional Studies}, year = {2024}, month = {04/2024}, pages = {1-5}, abstract = {Despite being one of the main European Union (EU) policy goals, expressed in the EU treaty and expected to be fostered by EU Cohesion Policy, territorial cohesion is still an under-researched scientific concept and policy process. Against this background, this special issue provides novel theoretical and practical perspectives on the relationship between EU Cohesion Policy and territorial cohesion, particularly through the analysis of EU Cohesion Policy impacts and its contribution to territorial cooperation processes, regional and urban development strategies, as well as sustainable transitions.}, keywords = {EU cohesion policy, regional development, sustainable transition, territorial cohesion, territorial cooperation}, doi = {10.1080/00343404.2024.2349736}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2024.2349736}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Eduardo Medeiros and Oto Potluka and Barbara Demeterova} } @inbook {4293, title = {Introduction}, booktitle = {Successes \& Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe}, year = {2020}, pages = {1-8}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin/Warsaw}, isbn = {9788395720451}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9788395720451-001}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9788395720451/10.1515/9788395720451-001.xml}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak and Oto Potluka} } @book {4280, title = {Successes \& Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe}, year = {2020}, pages = {208}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin/Warsaw}, abstract = {Regions in the EU{\textquoteright}s Eastern and Southern peripheries tend to perform badly across many rankings from economic development, to quality of government,social justice and innovation potential, despite the fact that the vast majorityof EU structural funding has been spent in these countries. However, these countries followed different development trajectories and reacted differently to the economic crisis. Some of them still struggle, others thrive, others, afteryears of structural transformation, are stuck in a middle-income trap.Successes and failures as a result of EU cohesion implementation are avaluable source of feedback for future plans. Southern part of the EU, and Central and Eastern Europe provide an excellent opportunity to evaluatethem, The whole implementation exercise is sometimes challenging to accomplish, as both the public and private sectors have low absorption capacity. In contrast, positive experiences also emerged. Regions in Central and Eastern European countries witnessed improvements in the form of change in GDP per capita, benchmarked against the EU average during theyears 2008-2015, while Southern Europe improved similarly between 2000-2008. In this volume, the authors cover a variety of aforementioned problems and experiences of either all member states, with special attention to peripheral countries, or to sectoral or regional problems in selected countries. The book begins with an overview of the issues of economic convergence and quality of life in all member states. It also addresses political aspects of EU cohesion policy, including involvement of civil society into this public policy, as well as relationships between cohesion policy support and EU identification. The final section discusses an important novelty in the framework of EU cohesion policy, namely the JESSICA initiative, that is, an instrument offering repayable and recyclable funding targeted at economically-viable and sustainable urban development projects. Authors are engaged in research on EU cohesion policy and represent severaldisciplines: economics, political and social sciences.}, keywords = {Central and Eastern Europe, cohesion policy, convergence, EU funds, European Union, regeneration, Southern Europe}, issn = {978-83-957204-4-4}, doi = {10.1515/9788395720451}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/580682?language=en}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak and Oto Potluka} } @inbook {4037, title = {Civic Engagement in Local Politics in Central Europe}, booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government}, year = {2019}, pages = {344-360}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, edition = {Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, Pamela T. Dunning}, chapter = {23}, address = {London}, abstract = {Civic engagement and civil society participation in political decision-making is important for efficient and sustainable public policies. However, this behaviour is difficult to achieve and maintain in countries such as post-socialist societies that have passive social attitudes and low levels of general trust. This chapter describes the development and current character of local political systems, decentralisation and civic engagement in four countries in Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. It concentrates on civil society, direct and indirect forms of political participation, the development of civil-society organisation advocacy and citizen opinions about their likelihood of influencing policy. It highlights the low general trust and social capital, passive attitudes, and low voter turnout in these countries compared to other countries in Europe. These features are a legacy of the communist past and are attributable to the negative socioeconomic consequences of the transition process and disillusionment about democratic development. As a result, the development of civil participation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia has been slower than in other parts of Europe.}, isbn = {9781315306261}, issn = {9781138234727}, doi = {10.4324/9781315306278}, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315306278/chapters/10.4324/9781315306278-23}, author = {Potluka, Oto and Kalman, Judit and Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak} } @article {4019, title = {EU{\textendash}China and EU {\textendash}Brazil policy transfer in regional policy}, journal = {Regional Studies}, year = {2018}, month = {03/2018}, pages = {1-13}, abstract = {The paper investigates the European Union (EU){\textendash}Brazil and EU{\textendash}China regional policy dialogues, viewed as vectors of cross-national policy transfer. Regional policy is considered as having limited transfer potential due to its inward orientation, context specificity and complexity. Yet, knowledge exchange and voluntary policy transfer have taken place between the EU and Brazil and between the EU and China since the mid-2000s. The study investigates and compares actors, motivations, mechanisms of transfer, conditioning factors and types of outcomes, shedding a light on the under-researched phenomenon of international policy transfer in regional policy.}, keywords = {Brazil, China, European Union Cohesion Policy, lesson-drawing, policy transfer, regional policy}, issn = {1360-0591}, doi = {10.1080/00343404.2018.1431389}, url = { https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1431389}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Marcin Dabrowski and Laura Polverari} } @article {4032, title = {Introduction: drawing lessons from international policy-transfer initiatives in regional and urban development and spatial planning}, journal = {Regional Studies}, volume = {52}, year = {2018}, month = {09/2018}, pages = {1165-1168}, type = {introduction to theme issue}, abstract = {The collection of papers in this issue brings new insights to the processes of international policy transfer and learning in the fields of regional and urban development policy, regional innovation and transit-oriented development. It explores, through the perspective of different disciplines, the motivations of actors, tangible and non-tangible outputs, the role of factors affecting the process, and the spillover effects of such process. The contributions bring new insights into what represents success and failure in policy transfer and provide valuable lessons for policy-makers facing the challenges of a fast-changing global context.}, keywords = {industrial parks, lesson drawing, policy transfer, regional and urban development, regional policy, transit-oriented development}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1462490}, url = {https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2018.1462490?scroll=top\&needAccess=true$\#$.W5q_Xbg091g}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Marcin Dabrowski and Laura Polverari} } @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} } @article {3764, title = {Future research on European Union Cohesion Policy: a Master Class during the OPEN DAYS 2014}, journal = {Regional Studies, Regional Science}, volume = {2}, year = {2015}, month = {03/2015}, pages = {184-203}, chapter = {184}, abstract = {

Between 6 and 8 October 2014, the 12th European Week of Regions and Cities {\textendash} OPEN DAYS {\textendash} hosted an early career Master Class for the second time, aiming to improve understanding of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy and its research potential. Organized by the European Commission{\textquoteright}s DG for Regional and Urban Policy (DGREGIO), the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA), the Master Class brought together 29 doctoral students and early career researchers from 15 EU member states and three non-EU countries.

The evaluation of the Master Class by participants and lecturers revealed a high level of satisfaction with the networking opportunities provided. The World Caf{\'e} session coordinated by John Bachtler from the Strathclyde University received the highest appreciation. As a result of the latter, participants of the Master Class summarized their views on different aspects in the five subsequent articles. Marius Guderjan, Alba Smeriglio and Myrto Tourtouri look into the policy and research challenges for EU Cohesion Policy for the years to come. Neculai-Cristian Surubaru, Koen Salemink, Piotr Idczak and Christian Kj{\ae}r Monsson discuss the components of administrative capacity, the elements that affect it and instruments that may help improve it. Also with regard to administrative capacity-building for the management of the EU Structural and Investment Funds, Hunor Bajtalan, Chiara Garau, Mariana Soultanova and Alessia Usai propose a stronger research focus on possibilities to reduce political intervention in public administrations and on the role civil society organizations can play in this respect. Finally, two articles focus on research challenges concerning the {\textquoteleft}European Territorial Cooperation{\textquoteright} objective of EU Cohesion Policy, also known as {\textquoteleft}Interreg{\textquoteright}. Eduardo Medeiros, Tomasz Szulc and Marco Trienes suggest concentrating on the development of typologies of border regions, the need for a longer-term cross-border planning process, and the use of territorial impact assessment instruments, while Annika Jaansoo, Emily Lange, G{\"o}khan Yalcin, Gordon Modro and Jean-Marc Venineaux develop a list of issues reflecting on {\textquoteleft}capacity and governance{\textquoteright}

}, issn = {2168-1376 (Online)}, doi = {10.1080/21681376.2015.1013151}, url = {http://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681376.2015.1013151}, author = {Wolfgang Petzold and Marius Guderjan and Alba Smeriglio and Myrto Tourtouri and Neculai- Cristian Surubaru and Koen Salemink and Piotr Idczak and Christian Kj{\ae}r Monsson and Hunor Bajtalan and Chiara Garau and Mariana Soultanova and Alessia Usai and Eduardo Medeiros and Tomasz Szulc and Marco Trienes and Annika Jaansoo and Emily Lange and G{\"o}khan Yalcin and Gordon Modro and Jean-Marc Venineaux} } @article {3782, title = {REPORT ON THE RSA WORKSHOP ON CROSS-NATIONAL POLICY TRANSFER IN REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICY}, volume = {298}, year = {2015}, month = {06/2015}, pages = {21-22}, keywords = {policy transfer, regional development, regional policy, urban planning, urban policy}, doi = {http://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13673882.2015.11447286}, author = {Laura Polverari and Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Marcin Dabrowski} } @article {2509, title = {Cross-national policy transfer and learning in regional and urban policy. Regions Magazine, vol. 296, 2014}, year = {2014}, keywords = {cross-national, development, EU, policy learning, policy transfer, regional policy, urban policy, world}, isbn = {1367-3382}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/9593376/Cross-national_policy_transfer_and_learning_in_regional_and_urban_policy}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Marcin Dabrowski and Laura Polverari} } @article {2508, title = {EU-China and EU-Brazil policy transfer and learning in regional development policy}, journal = {Regions Magazine}, volume = {296}, year = {2014}, month = {12/2014}, pages = {13-15}, keywords = {Brazil, China, development, EU, EU cohesion policy, learning, policy transfer, regional policy}, issn = {1367-3882}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/9594831/EU-China_and_EU-Brazil_policy_transfer_and_learning_in_regional_development_policy}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Marcin Dabrowski and Laura Polverari} } @book {3466, title = {Local Participation in Visegrad Countries: How Are Politicians Rooted in the Civil Society?}, year = {2014}, pages = {109}, publisher = {IREAS}, organization = {IREAS}, address = {Praga}, abstract = {

This year, the Visegrad countries celebrate together twenty ve years since the socio, economic and political changes lead in collapse of totalitarian regimes. But the political transition brought also problems and new challenges not know previously. The rst free elections were held in the Visegrad countries that time and their inhabitants could choose their political representatives. Many of them came originally from the civil society and revolution movements. However, the political decision-making became disconnected from the civil society over time. We study the present rootedness of local political representatives in the civil society measured by their membership and leadership in civil society organisations in all four Visegrad countries. We are as well interested in engagement of activists from the civil society in an institutionalised political life, i.e. political parties and political movements. The purpose of this book is to discuss development of local democracy, local development initiatives and local social capital in growing urban areas in post-transition countries in which the civil society was almost absent or very weak twenty ve years ago. This publication comes up with overviews of the situation in four cities, one in each of the Visegrad countries. First the Polish case of Poznan is discussed. Then three capital cities follow: Czech Prague, Slovakian Bratislava and Hungarian Budapest.

}, keywords = {Bratislava, Budapest, civil society, civil society organisations, European Union, leaders, local elections, local participation, Poznan, Prague, regions, Visegrad Countries}, issn = {978-80-86684-98-7}, url = {http://www.ireas.cz/images/projekty/lea/lea_publikace.pdf}, author = {Potluka, Oto and Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Kalman, Judit and Spacek, Martin and Kostal, Ctibor and Ovadek, Michal and Tholtova, Barbora} } @article {3544, title = {Zintegrowane zarz{\k a}dzanie zasobami wodnymi jako czynnik rozwoju spo{\l}eczno-gospodarczego}, journal = {Gospodarka przestrzenna. Dylematy i wyzwania wsp{\'o}{\l}czesno{\'s}ci - Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wroc{\l}awiu}, volume = {339}, year = {2014}, pages = {130 - 140}, abstract = {

Na pocz{\k a}tku 2011 r. zosta{\l}y zatwierdzone plany gospodarowania wodami na 10 obszarach dorzeczy po{\l}o{\.z}onych na terytorium Polski. Dla osi{\k a}gni{\k e}cia zak{\l}adanych w Ramowej Dyrektywie Wodnej cel{\'o}w {\'s}rodowiskowych dla poszczeg{\'o}lnych dorzeczy zosta{\l}y zaplanowane dzia{\l}ania podstawowe (A i B) oraz szczeg{\'o}{\l}owe. W pracy dokonano analizy por{\'o}wnawczej koszt{\'o}w inwestycyjnych wynikaj{\k a}cych z dzia{\l}a{\'n} programowych maj{\k a}cych na celu osi{\k a}gni{\k e}cie i utrzymanie co najmniej dobrego stanu w{\'o}d na tle nak{\l}ad{\'o}w ponoszonych na inwestycje zwi{\k a}zane z gospodarowaniem zasobami wodnymi w latach 2001-2010. Po{\.z}{\k a}dany stan i jako{\'s}{\'c} zasob{\'o}w wodnych jest jednym czynnik{\'o}w warunkuj{\k a}cych rozw{\'o}j spo{\l}eczno-gospodarczy. W tym kontek{\'s}cie istotne s{\k a} dzia{\l}ania z zakresu racjonalizacji gospodarowania zasobami w{\'o}d, kt{\'o}re zapobiegaj{\k a} wyst{\k e}powaniu stan{\'o}w niekorzystnych. Znaczenie tego sektora dla rozwoju spo{\l}eczno-gospodarczego kraju potwierdza tak{\.z}e rosn{\k a}cy udzia{\l} nak{\l}ad{\'o}w inwestycyjnych na dzia{\l}ania dotycz{\k a}ce gospodarowania zasobami wodnymi zar{\'o}wno w stosunku do PKB, jak i inwestycji gospodarki narodowej og{\'o}{\l}em. Kluczowe znaczenie w nak{\l}adach inwestycyjnych oraz w planowanych kosztach w planach gospodarowania wodami na obszarach dorzeczy maj{\k a} inwestycje zwi{\k a}zane z gospodark{\k a} wodno-{\'s}ciekow{\k a}.

}, keywords = {plan gospodarowania wodami, rozw{\'o}j spo{\l}eczno-gospodarczy, zintegrowane zarz{\k a}dzanie zasobami wodnymi}, issn = {1899-3192}, doi = {10.15611/pn.2014.339.11}, url = {http://ksiegarnia.ue.wroc.pl/p/_/24457/Spis_tresci_i_wstep.pdf}, author = {Karol Mrozik and Czes{\l}aw Przyby{\l}a and Piotr Szczepa{\'n}ski and Micha{\l} Napiera{\l}a and Piotr Idczak} } @proceedings {441, title = {Financing of Cultural Activities by the Public Authorities. Case of Poland.}, year = {2012}, pages = {107-116}, publisher = {Universitat Internacional de Catalunya}, edition = {Enrique Banus, Cristina Branea}, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, keywords = {culture, financial instruments, Poland, public authorities}, isbn = {978-84-695-0576-2}, url = {http://www.uic.es/progs/obj.uic?id=500e99f41b8b4}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Joanna Przybylska} } @article {434, title = {Identyfying training needs of employees as a part of human recources management - cultural institutions case study}, journal = {Scientific Journal of University of Szczecin: Service Management }, volume = {4}, year = {2009}, pages = {125-131}, keywords = {cultural institutions, human resources, management, Poland, training needs, Wielkoplska}, url = {http://www.google.pl/url?sa=t\&rct=j\&q=\&esrc=s\&source=web\&cd=1\&ved=0CDQQFjAA\&url=http\%3A\%2F\%2Fwww.wzieu.pl\%2Ffiles\%2Fsm\%2FSm4\%2FSM4\%2520spis_mumer.doc\&ei=3LjJUoP-Lq6X7QaphICwBA\&usg=AFQjCNFMQ8Rmp5lKH4vFAYUGRO_RsMDjTg\&bvm=bv.58187178,d.ZGU}, author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Joanna Przybylska} }