Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU

Piotr Idczak, Ph.D, is an assistant professor at the Department of European Studies, Poznan University of Economics and Business. His primary research interests encompass European integration, regional economic development with particular focus on the development of peripheral regions, urban regeneration, and the evaluation and analysis of financial engineering instruments used in EU cohesion policy. He is lecturer and trainer for graduate and postgraduate students at PUEB. Additionally, he has professional experience with the preparation and implementation of projects co-financed by European funds. He was also involved in several national and international research and educational projects. Currently, he coordinates a reserach project funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, on the JESSICA initiative. Ida Musialkowska is an Associate Professor and Head of Department of European Studies Department at the Poznan University of Economics and Business (PUEB, Poland) and also serves as Programme Director for International Economics at the university. She obtained her habilitation in economics (post-doctoral degree) in 2017 and Ph.D. in economics in 2005 (PUEB). Her research interests are dynamics of regional integration and development processes in the EU and world, EU cohesion policy, European integration, Latin American integration, regional business cycles and policy transfer. She is an author of many research articles, chapters in books, books and visiting professor at the European, South and North American universities. Besides, she was an expert to the European Commission and evaluator at REA (Horizon 2020), COST programme, Polish Parliament (2011-2015), regional and local authorities, and is a member of the monitoring committee of the Wielkopolska Regional Operation Programme for the years 2014-2020.

"This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the EU cohesion policy instrument - the JESSICA initiative. It provides a solid theoretical background on urban regeneration policy and fi lls a research gap by giving a unique insight into JESSICA's functioning and placing it in the context of a wider theoretical discussion."
Prof. Malgorzata Dziembala, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland