It is an initiative of doctoral researchers from various Leibniz Institutes to represent the interests of all doctoral researchers of all 96 institutes and museums in the Leibniz Association, one of the four big scientific non-university organizations in Germany. The Leibniz PhD Network has the goal to promote exchange among doctoral researchers within the Leibniz Association and beyond, to organize occasions and opportunities that foster and strengthen the Leibniz Network and to work towards common standards of working conditions for doctoral researchers within the Leibniz Association.