 Y Llebeiri Merging Leaders programme draws together a group of 16 or 18 aspiring leaders all with tremendous experience in senior positions in European libraries, all aiming for a top leadership job in a European research library. The programme is really very heavily focused on them as individuals because we believe that to be a good leader one needs a high degree of self-awareness so knowing one's self is really important. And then the other part of the programme is about how they will interact with their colleagues, their peers, their managers. I think it's a very special situation to be being together with other leaders from European universities, European university libraries. It's a good atmosphere to discuss topics and to discuss leadership and we've got all the same and different backgrounds just to have the opportunity to do that during the course. I think this is a very, very good chance for networking to be part of a team so that when it's your turn to build a team and make a team working, it makes a big bit of understanding of the physiology of this process. It's very interesting to just have these discussions with other colleagues from all over Europe who I am actually really impressed with and learn from them and hopefully they can also learn from me and to do that in this kind of environment and to have the ongoing conversations during the year. It has been a really valuable experience.