The constant transformation that the institutions of higher education experiment and, particularly, the university assumes a re-consideration of their shapes, methodology, and missions, as well as the relationships established with society. Therefore, we shall consider that a “social mission” of the university or their “third mission” constitutes an umbrella that shelters a wide diversity of reflex conceptions, and at the same time, the relationship university – society. Additionally, take into consideration that this civic and social commitment in higher education should incorporate an integrator approach, involved with an idea of European or Latin-American citizenship, in any case, incorporated in the development of their supranational policies. Therefore, the objective of our work is double. On one side, to meet and analyze the notion of a “social mission” or “third mission” of the university and their conceptual network, to clarify the language and in which sense the different denominations are used, according to the different economical, sustainability or civic approaches to be adopted. Secondly, the treatment of these ideas will be addressed at the supranational policies of higher education both in Europe and Ibero America, according to what had been structured at the Higher Education European State and whether it has been promoted by the OEI. Also, it will be attended the way that this supranational policy aboard the civic and identity components, that linked to the social mission cooperate for the promotion of common citizenship. As a result of the analysis made we can affirm that the approach of the learning-service constitutes an emergent tendency on a global scale, appropriate to develop effectively the third mission or social mission of the university.

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La crisis sanitaria ha provocado la aceleración de procesos de virtualización del aprendizaje en contextos donde existe una reducida conectividad y escasa formación en tecnologías aplicadas a la educación. Para contrarrestar los efectos negativos producidos por la pandemia, se propone un proyecto de Aprendizaje-Servicio virtual (APSv), donde estudiantes universitarios desarrollan sesiones virtuales de refuerzo académico a través de estrategias lúdicas para niños de entre 4 y 11 años de Quito. Este artículo evalúa el proyecto a partir de las encuestas de percepción del sistema de autoevaluación de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria en AUSJAL aplicadas a los estudiantes (23), docentes (11) y familias (73) vinculados al programa. Tras el análisis, se destaca que los estudiantes reaprendieron a diseñar sus intervenciones de enseñanza en un contexto real al que no estaban habituados, fortalecieron el compromiso cívico en procura de recortar la brecha de desigualdad social palpada y se disminuyeron los efectos negativos derivados de la pandemia sobre el aprendizaje y estado socioemocional de niños y adolescentes. En este sentido las TIC aplicadas en un proyecto de APSv propician la participación e interacción social; favorecen el aprendizaje de docentes en formación y cobran significado para dar continuidad a los procesos de vinculación universitaria.