Culture Collections have a long tradition in capacity building and in training people that directly, or indirectly, are interested in microbial taxonomy and in microbial preservation and management.Academic (PhD and Master), advanced as well as bespoke courses on related topics in this field are regarded of true added value for the educational and microbial research community in Europe.In addition, only with modem and appealing approaches we can reverse the strong decline in numbers of trained microbial taxonomists in Europe that has been observed over the last decades.