Good neighboring with the one on the other side of the border is a first condition for local development in border region. Cooperation between communities, to have a strong regional attitude, we cannot achieve, without locally strong communities in which each member knows and respects its own values and afterwards get to know and appreciate the other communities’ values and traditions too. Our initiative brings to the fore the very common elements of these localities (Igris, Cenad, Pecica, Semlac and Deszk, Magyarcsanad, Maroslele, Ferencszallas), which form the basis of fruitful collaborations. By offering a binding symbol, cooperation will be much easier. This symbol in our case is the river Maros/Mures which literary binds the communities. Given that the target group is composed mostly by children aged 7-12, the relationships that are now established can be defining in the coming years, when these young people will become more involved in the lives of their communities.It is necessary to reveal a common element, a common perspective on existing inter-conditioning, then cross-border contacts appear much easier. This project offers to the communities in the region even this common perspective in order to encourage communities on both sides of the border to build partnerships, to cooperate. All these we will achieve through our project activities, like: forming local clubs in the named localities; organizing a joint workshop for club leaders; on the riverside of Maros in Hungary organizing a joint community picnic of the members coming from 8 different localities with the participation of the entire target group and representatives of the 8 localities; youngsters from the involved 8 localities will elaborate works – drawings, pictures, photos, film, poem, lecture – regarding their community life linking the river Maros/Mures; they will also elaborate a small scale research regarding traditions linking the river and also future desires and cooperation ideas of their communities; organizing in Romania a final joint exposition of the elaborated works with the participation of the entire target group of over 100 participants. PP will organise a secong joint community picnic in the second half of the project, with the purpose of strenghten the already established partnership between the involved communities. All the elaborated materials, the children works along the locality and community life description will be presented on the joint project website. Within the project duration, we create the basis for future collaborations too, by defining those activity types and collaboration areas, that these named communities are willing to achieve. This is the main reason of the research included in the local clubs activities: to change mentality, to be open to the neighboring communities and to think and act together for joint goals. We see this project as an initiator, because the activities will continue after project closure too. Within the project we created the basis of collaboration and also stipulated those activity types and thematic which the communities want to continue in the cross-border partnership. This will be the main result for the further collaboration between the cross-border communities.