Since the 1990s, our association dedicated to theatre and theatre in education has regularly organised workshops, trainings and camps for youth and youth workers. We primarily work in Hungary and Romania (Transylvania), bringing theatre performances, trainings and community-building activities to rural communities. As a result, the members and trainers of our company have a significant insight into the various challenges affecting youth in our region and the current needs of youth professionals. Through regular activities organised for teachers, trainers and group leaders, we are in daily contact with dozens of youth professionals.This allowed us to identify the problems which underpin the project's objectives (such as the low prestige of the teaching profession, the declining number of teachers graduating from higher education, the increasing number of people leaving the profession, the growing shortage of teachers, the loss of motivation due to burnout and overwork, and the indirect effects of all these on youth). In order to make a meaningful contribution to tackling these problems, in 2020 we initiated a regional strategic cooperation involving partner organisations –until 2022– from bordering countries who could contribute to the common objectives with a competence and/or a target group of interest. Among our long-term objectives, we have prioritised the gradual scaling-up of the cooperation strategy. This strategy was represented by the project organised jointly with our Serbian partner organisation VMMSZ (Hungarian Cultural Association of Vojvodina), which took place in spring 2021, under an Erasmus+ Youth Workers Mobility grant. This organisation has been our regular collaborator since then, and has been involved in the implementation of the project covered by this report, along with 2 other partners. In addition to the mentioned 2021 project and the project presented here, we have so far organised on 6 occasions 5-day training sessions under 3 other Erasmus+ grant projects, representing our regional youth strategy. In summary, the aim of our project was to further implement and develop this strategic cooperation in support of youth workers. We sought to engage reliable partners with expertise in youth and non-formal education who could make a meaningful contribution to this goal. Thus, our partners in the project were the already mentioned VMMSZ, an organisation specialised in community development, Adrenalin Association, an organisation specialised in promoting a healthy lifestyle, and Csöbörcsök Association from Germany, a newly involved partner,mainly involved in community development through folk dance. Due to the nature of the project and the linguistic competences of our target group, the majority of the partner organisations and participants were Hungarian speakers, which was a compromise we had to make during the project planning. At the same time, our project represented an intercultural and international dimension, as our participants came from different countries and socio-cultural backgrounds. The focus of the activities was on the maintenance of physical and mental balance, and on the sharing of knowledge and practices to learn and pass on methods to achieve this. We started to develop the methodology underlying this complex approach in 2021 as part of an Erasmus+ Small Scale Partnerships grant project, and since then, one of our main ambitions has been to further develop the activities based on feedback and evaluation and to bring it to as many interested parties as possible. It is important to add that the youth workers selected as the target group come from small rural settlements, so their access to training in methodologies outside the institutional system is much more limited than for example in case of their colleagues working in Budapest or other larger cities. In reaching our target group, we were able to draw on our own extensive network of contacts and those of our partner organisations (secondary schools, education centres for children with less opportunities, non-formal education organisationsand community centres). Overall, the originally planned project has been implemented as expected and successfully, based not only on the fulfilment of the performance indicators, but also on the feedback from participants and partner organisations.