ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9667-3730 Author of numerous publications indexed in Web of Sciences and SCOPUS. National head of European Union's Horizon 2020 project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 CLUSDEVMED Grant Agreement Number 645730730; project promoter of Baltic Research Programme THE ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF THE NORDIC-BALTIC REGION THROUGH LABOUR, INNOVATION, INVESTMENTS AND TRADE, LIFT, PROJECT CONTRACT No S-BMT-21-7 (LT08-2-LMT-K-01-070).