Roland Benedikter is Co- Head at the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, and Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Center of the University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is also a Member of the Future Circle of the Federal German Government, Berlin, a Regular Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, and a Global Advisor of the Institute for Culture and Society of Western Sydney University, Australia.

Mirjam Gruber is a Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, and a PhD Student in Political Science at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Ingrid Kofler is a Sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.