Vanessa Halwax (https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7439-9058) serves as the EPIEM Network Manager. At Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), she works as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Business Economics and Industrial Sociology. Her research focuses on collaborative approaches in supply chains to strengthen performance and resilience within the context of a circular economy.

Amila Omazic (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6602-5978) is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Business Economics and Industrial Sociology at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). In her research, she is focusing on human resource management practices that can further enhance organizational performance in the context of fostering the development of sustainability, digital, and innovation competences of engineering professionals. Additionally, she is acting as an EPIEM Representative CEE supporting the European Professors of Industrial Engineering and Management (EPIEM) network.