The following may be used to foster collaboration among the provinces of a region or nation:
regular meetings between the priors provincial or different officials, such as the masters of novices, of students and of cooperator brothers, of regents, professors, promoters, etc.;
interprovincial conferences or commissions for the study of common problems;
national or regional promoters for different activities;
a common novitiate or studentate or common centres, according to norms to be approved by the Master of the Order;
an agreement entered into with the consent of the Master of the Order for the erection of interprovincial convents and for making assignations from one province to another.