Eini

Haaja

D.Sc. (Econ.) Eini Haaja is Academy Research Fellow at the Pan-European Institute (PEI). Haaja has been working at PEI since 2008 in various research, teaching and administrative positions. She has specialised in International Business with an emphasis on sustainable business development in international business networks. She has been involved in several research projects and has published articles concerning business opportunities, risks and collaboration dynamics, most recently focusing on internationalisation, innovation and network orchestration in the maritime industry. In her new research, she explores how geopolitical turbulence influences the competitiveness and sustainability enhancement of the Finnish industries. Haaja is currently the PI in GEONIUS project co-funded by the Research Council of Finland and MANU project funded by the Foundation for Economic Education. She is also the PI for the part of University of Turku in STARA project co-funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland. Based on her research, she currently teaches the course "Geopolitics and geoeconomy in Northern Europe" at Turku School of Economics.

Haaja conducted her postdoctoral research project at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies in 2022-2025 focusing on sustainability enhancement in shipbuilding industry networks. At the same time, she was the PI in MUUTOS-project funded by the Foundation for Economic Education, researcher in SusFlow-project funded by Business Finland, and Fulbright Finland visiting scholar at Florida International University, USA. As an example of her other prior research projects, she successfully coordinated the project application process for ECOPRODIGI project (2017-2020, 4,2 million EUR, co-financing and the flagship status from the EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme) for increasing eco-efficiency in the maritime sector processes through digitalisation.