From November 25 to December 3, 2013, in Burundi, a training on mushrooms was organized for scientists from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi (Appendix 1). This activity is part of the partnership between the University of Kigali in Rwanda, the University of Bukavu in Rwanda, the University of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the University of Burundi, the National Institute for Environment and Nature Conservation in Burundi (INECN), the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences in Rwanda, the University of Bukavu in Rwanda, the University of Burundi, the National Institute for the Environment and Nature Conservation in Burundi (INECN), the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium, and the Belgian National Botanical Garden (IRSCnb).

This training, organized under the funding of the IRSCnb, had the following objectives:

• Provide knowledge on the taxonomy and systematics of fungi that will make it possible to know the richness of the ecosystems of the countries concerned;
• To provide knowledge on the exploitation of available information on mushrooms, especially those from Africa;
• Strengthen capacities in terms of ecology, development strategies and the role of fungi in the functioning of ecosystems;
• To provide knowledge in the field of mushroom conservation for further research;
• Strengthen capacities for the valorization of mushrooms in the management, management and sustainable use of natural resources in Central Africa.