About the Institute
The Just Council Institute is an ethical and philosophical platform that integrates the thirteen values of a culture of justice (Just Culture) into a coherent system for interpreting the world. It draws on the Torah, the Bible and the European intellectual tradition as a unified source of human values — its orientation is civic, and expressly neither religious nor political.
The figure of the tzaddik
Just Council describes justice not by pointing out the guilty, but through people who already live by these values in concrete, everyday practice — directors who publish inconvenient data, coordinators who build the patient pathway, teams that learn from mistakes instead of concealing them. This is the archetype of the tzaddik, the righteous one within the system — the doctrine’s preferred narrative anchor, especially in content concerning healthcare.
The author and the institutional context
Just Council is developed by Michał P. Dybowski — President and co-founder of the Healthcare Poland Foundation (HCPL), Chief Strategy Officer and Director of the Department of Green Hospitals and Security at the Polish Federation of Hospitals (PFSz), and President of the Global Healthcare Systems Hub (GHSH). Nearly a quarter of a century of practice in the ICT sector, project management and the governance of healthcare systems — in Poland and in the United Kingdom — forms the practical foundation of the doctrine: Just Council is not an academic exercise, but a language forged in day-to-day work on health policy, hospital cybersecurity and international cooperation.
Ecosystem
A doctrine with nowhere to be tested remains a declaration. Just Council develops within an ecosystem of institutions, initiatives and programmes in which the values of a culture of justice meet real cost — a hospital budget, a regulator’s decision, the risk of deploying a technology, the fate of a community living outside its homeland. Each of these organisations acts under its own mandate; what unites them is a convergent way of looking at the human person, error, trust and repair.
For each organisation we indicate its role in the ecosystem, the doctrinal line to which it relates, and the values most clearly present in its mission.
Circle I · Healthcare institutions
Health line
Healthcare Poland Foundation (HCPL)
Convergent values
Learning · Trust · Transparency
The institutional setting of the doctrine and an international gateway for Polish healthcare.
The Foundation promotes the achievements of Polish medicine internationally, supports the quality of care and patient safety, develops the education of healthcare professionals and builds cooperation with institutions in Poland and abroad. It is here that the doctrine most often passes from the language of principle into practice: a culture of justice — in which a disclosed error becomes a lesson rather than a verdict — is, in work on hospital safety, a method rather than a slogan. The Foundation commits to transparency and integrity in all forms of cooperation.
Health line
Polish Federation of Hospitals (PFSz)
Convergent values
Proportionality · Responsibility · Solidarity
The voice of hospitals before the state and international partners — above divisions.
A nationwide employers’ organisation directly associating more than 250 hospitals — regardless of ownership structure, size and profile — and, through umbrella organisations such as regional hospital associations, reaching approximately 520 hospitals in total. It represents Poland in the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) and the International Hospital Federation (IHF). The Federation supports mechanisms in which healthcare providers compete on value for the patient and are rewarded for the outcome of treatment across the entire course of an illness. In the language of the doctrine, this is proportionality translated into the economics of the system: the measure of an institution is the good of the patient, not its form or status.
Learning culture line
Global Healthcare Systems Hub (GHSH)
Convergent values
Learning · Humility · Trust
Healthcare systems that learn from one another.
A non-commercial hub in which ministries of health, public payers and regulators from 56 countries compare what works, adopt proven solutions and avoid the mistakes of others. This is the principle of a culture of justice raised to the level of states: an error described honestly and shared with others protects further patients — in another country, too. Confidentiality of discussions, a scope of commitments defined in writing and an independent advisory board correspond to the doctrinal understanding of trust as the infrastructure of a community, and the readiness to learn from others to the mature humility of institutions.
Circle II · Technology, validation and knowledge
Technology line
POLIVERSUM
Convergent values
Moral neutrality of analysis · Transparency · Responsibility
Independent validation — evidence in place of declarations.
POLIVERSUM conducts independent operational validation of artificial intelligence systems and of compliance for public administration, regulated institutions and entities entering the European Union market. It is neither a provider of AI systems nor a supervisory authority; it acts impartially, confidentially and with respect for conflict-of-interest rules. The doctrine finds itself here in the neutrality of analysis: first the test, the evidence and the description of the mechanism, and only then assessment and decision. The POLIVERSUM expert group prepared the SandboxPlus report — a concept for a regulatory sandbox for dual-use technologies.
Health and technology line
AI dla Zdrowia (AI for Health)
Convergent values
Trust · Transparency · Hope
Public education on artificial intelligence in medicine.
A programme of the Healthcare Poland Foundation produced in cooperation with Telewizja Biznesowa, presenting trends, innovations and regulation of artificial intelligence in healthcare — the AI Act, the MDR, the GDPR and NIS2 — in the context of regulatory sandboxes. It brings together the communities of science, medicine, business, regulators and investors. From the doctrine’s perspective, this is the building of trust through transparency: a technology meant to serve the patient must be comprehensible to those who decide on it and safe for those whom it affects.
Technology and trade line
Solutions AI4SME
Convergent values
Justice · Solidarity · Learning
Artificial intelligence accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises, too.
An initiative of the Warsaw Collaboration Cluster Network, prepared in cooperation with Dybowski P.S.A. and inspired by the assessment of the SME committee within GPAI, which identified three barriers: the difficulty of finding trusted providers, a lack of knowledge about the applications of AI, and the absence of guidance on strategies for its deployment. The profile gathers tools, solutions and training materials. Its convergence with the doctrine concerns fair access: technological progress should not be the privilege of the largest alone, and knowledge shared with others is a form of solidarity.
Circle III · Economy and community
Trade line
MED TAX PRO Polska
Convergent values
Responsibility · Transparency · Proportionality
The financial dimension of the ecosystem — sound finances as a condition of good care.
A firm specialising exclusively in the healthcare sector: accounting, tax and HR for doctors, practices, medical companies, healthcare providers and hospitals, as well as financial analysis, controlling, recovery programmes and the restructuring of facilities. The doctrine sees in this area responsibility in its most concrete dimension: a facility with opaque finances cannot protect the patient in a lasting way. The firm’s declared principle of working from sources — every recommendation grounded in a statutory provision, an interpretation or a ruling — is the same discipline that Just Council applies in analysis: first a sound diagnosis, then assessment.
Trade line
Warsaw Collaboration Cluster Network (WCCN)
Convergent values
Solidarity · Trust · Learning
Cooperation as a source of growth and competitiveness.
A Warsaw cluster collaboration network whose aim is to create an effective system of cooperation between partners — entrepreneurs, public administration, local authorities and educational institutions — leading to their development and greater competitiveness in local, supra-regional and cross-border markets, among other things through the transfer of knowledge and technology with the scientific community. From the doctrine’s perspective, the cluster is a practice of trust and solidarity: the shared bearing of the burden of development by entities that, on their own, would not reach the same scale.
Peace line
Polish Council for Britain
Convergent values
Dignity · Solidarity · Hope
The Polish community in Great Britain and bridges between nations.
A platform supporting Poles living, working, studying and staying in the United Kingdom, and building trusted bridges between Britain, Poland and strategic international partners — in the areas of community representation, cooperation in healthcare, and innovation and strategic projects. The doctrine recognises here an experience well known to Polish history, from the post-war émigré community in London to today’s community of work and study: a community abroad preserves its identity and dignity when it has a voice, institutions and partners who take it seriously.
These descriptions present the convergence of each mission with the Just Council doctrine as the Institute sees it. They imply neither organisational dependence nor the adoption of the doctrine by the entities listed — each of them operates within its own statutes, governing bodies and responsibility.
The architecture of the Institute
The Just Council Institute is neither an archive of texts nor a series of publications. It is an architecture of knowledge built on three levels that must work together, because on its own each of them becomes distorted.
The level of doctrine comprises definitions, values, the method of interpretation and language. This is the layer that determines whether a text will remain coherent five years from now. The level of production is the register of publications, editorial cycles, essays, newsletters and speaking materials — the practice that tests the doctrine against reality. The level of application covers the state, healthcare, technology, cyber resilience, the oversight of artificial intelligence, peace, trade and moral education — that is, the places where principle meets cost.
The overriding function of the Institute is memory — both doctrinal and editorial. It is meant to be a place from which an essay, a speech, a position paper or educational material can be derived without losing its single voice and without reinventing the foundations each time. Every publication has a minimum: a leading value, an interpretive anchor and an assignment to one of the doctrinal lines — justice, peace, the state, health, technology, trade, hope, sovereignty or the culture of learning.
Mission and boundaries
Just Council does not adjudicate party-political disputes, nor is it a devotional text. It is a way of speaking about responsibility, guilt, repair, proportion and dignity — in a language intelligible to believers and secular readers alike, to decision-makers and to citizens. A full description of the doctrine, its values and its editorial principles can be found in the handbook of the doctrine.
