01677nas a2200193   4500008004100000245010600041210006900147300001000216520099300226653002001219653001901239653001601258653002801274653002601302100001801328700002301346700002101369856009301390       2024                        eng d00aThe origins of the EU Cohesion Policy: from regional economic development to the place-based approach0 aorigins of the EU Cohesion Policy from regional economic develop  a10-293 aThe overarching objective of the EU Cohesion Policy is to promote the harmonious development of its regions and cities to achieve continuous, coherent, and sustainable development throughout the entire European Union, particularly those less developed. This chapter presents the changes in Cohesion Policy since the mid-1970s, highlighting the shift towards an approach focused on territorial contexts and the endogenous competitive potential of territories. The chapter concentrates on the shift from a traditional policy reducing the socioeconomic disparities between European territories through sectoral interventions to a place-based approach in which policy measures and financial resources are tailored to specific places. This place-based approach aims at bringing policies and activities from different levels of government together. Therefore, policy interventions shifted from being limited to deprived areas to constituting an inherent part of the EU’s development policies.10acohesion policy10aEuropean Union10aPlace-based10aTerritorial development10aTerritorial dimension1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aMusiałkowska, Ida1 aKociuba, Dagmara  uhttps://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781802209402/book-part-9781802209402-12.xml02358nam a2200253   4500008004100000020001800041245011800059210006900177260003100246300001000277520154600287653002001833653000701853653001301860653002601873653001201899653001101911653002201922653001701944653002301961100001801984700002302002856007902025       2022                        eng d  a978311076219800aFinancial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU Reflections on the JESSICA Initiative0 aFinancial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Developmen  aBerlin/ BostonbDe Gruyter  a1-2433 aThis theoretically rooted and research-based book provides insights on the JESSICA funding model which – unlike the traditional non-repayable aid – 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.10acohesion policy10aEU10aEU funds10afinancial engineering10aJESSICA10aPoland10aurban development10aurban policy10aurban regeneration1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aMusiałkowska, Ida  uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110762198/html#overview01568nas a2200217   4500008004100000245013500041210006900176260001200245300000900257520082200266653001101088653002001099653002301119653001101142653003301153653002501186100001801211700001801229700002301247856008001270       2021                        eng d00aSpatial Distribution of JESSICA  Funding Across Polish Municipalities. Perspective of Territorial Dimension  of EU Cohesion Policy0 aSpatial Distribution of JESSICA Funding Across Polish Municipali  c10/2021  a7-203 aThe 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 – 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.10acities10acohesion policy10aJESSICA initiative10aPoland10astandard deviational ellipse10aterritorial cohesion1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aMrozik, Karol1 aMusiałkowska, Ida  uhttps://studreg.uw.edu.pl/dane/web_sril_files/1746/2021_3_idczak_mrozik.pdf02929nas a2200193   4500008004100000245008300041210006900124260003000193300001400223520221900237653002002456653001202476653003202488653002602520653003402546100002302580700001802603856011402621       2020                        eng d00aJESSICA Initiative to Support Sustainable Urban Development Projects in Poland0 aJESSICA Initiative to Support Sustainable Urban Development Proj  aWarsaw/BerlinbDe Gruyter  a173–2043 a<p style="text-align: justify;">The JESSICA initiative has been set up to respond to development needs of urban areas, which are of key importance for stimulation of sustainable economic growth. It is supposed to provide a more efficient alternative to the traditional EU grants for the implementation of developmental projects. The funding available under the JESSICA framework relies on a repayable and recyclable basis. This means that it not only offers revolving funds, increasing financing capacity of EU cohesion policy, but also creates scope for cooperation between public authorities, financial institutions, and private investors to support implementation of this policy. Since JESSICA supports projects being part of an integrated plan for sustainable urban development, its primary challenge is to combine the objectives focused on urban sustainability and policy intervention with revolving financial models that assume, in principle, the long-term viability of projects. However, taking into particular consideration the needs of urban areas and the EU cohesion policy objective on the one hand, and the organisation and operation of financing engineering instruments on the other, JESSICA seems to be a very ambitious undertaking. The evaluations carried out, up to now, have been mainly focused on its legal and institutional framework, or limited to some selected project. Our study concerns the assessment of all projects implemented within the framework of the JESSICA initiative in five Polish regions, namely: Pomorskie, Mazowieckie, Śląskie, Wielkopolskie and Zachodniopomorskie, in the years between 2007-2015. To do so, we designed a methodological approach for assessing the extent to which projects implemented under the JESSICA initiative have contributed to achieving its fundamental assumptions. Subsequently, we made an assessment of the results of JESSICA through the conceptual lens of sustainable urban development. The main findings show that the range of achieving the assumptions of the JESSICA funding model by projects diverges widely. Many projects were quite well adjusted to the requirements but there were also projects that fulfilled them to a very limited extent.</p>10acohesion policy10aJESSICA10arevenue-generating projects10arevolving instruments10asustainable urban development1 aMusiałkowska, Ida1 aIdczak, Piotr  uhttps://euro.ue.poznan.pl/en/content/jessica-initiative-support-sustainable-urban-development-projects-poland02910nam a2200241   4500008004100000022002200041245012700063210006900190260003000259300000800289520211700297653003102414653002002445653001602465653001302481653001902494653001702513653002002530100002302550700001802573700001702591856006002608       2020                        eng d  a978-83-957204-4-400aSuccesses & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe0 aSuccesses Failures in EU Cohesion Policy An Introduction to EU c  aBerlin/WarsawbDe Gruyter  a2083 aRegions in the EU’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.10aCentral and Eastern Europe10acohesion policy10aconvergence10aEU funds10aEuropean Union10aregeneration10aSouthern Europe1 aMusiałkowska, Ida1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aPotluka, Oto  uhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/title/580682?language=en02118nas a2200229   4500008004100000022001400041245011400055210006900169300001000238490000900248520137400257653002001631653001301651653001501664653001101679653002601690653002401716653004801740100001801788700002301806856005901829       2014                        eng d  a2336-114X00aAssessment of the System of Project Selection under the Cohesion Policy "The Case of the Wielkopolska Region"0 aAssessment of the System of Project Selection under the Cohesion  a69-980 v20143 a<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 – 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>10acohesion policy10aEU funds10aevaluation10aPoland10aselection of projects10aWielkopolska region10aWielkopolska Regional Operational Programme1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aMusiałkowska, Ida  uhttps://www.evaltep.cz/inpage/assessment-wielkopolska/