According to the concept built by the National Forum of Extension Office Directors, University Extension (Service), “under Constitutional principle of indissolubility among teaching, research and service is and interdisciplinary, educational, cultural, scientific and political process that promotes transforming interaction between the university and other sectors of society”.
In the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), the main function of Service is to identify internal and external capabilities and to establish a social interface of partnership in several activities of community.
Through cultural and service programs, the Institution has positively interfered in the reality of contemplated cities, especially in the fields of Health Care, Education, Environment and professional qualification (mainly of the professors of semi-arid regions), which has contributed to a general improvement in educational quality. Service actions are developed in the form of programas, projects and courses besides institutional and inter-institutional events.
In the last years, UEFS expanded and qualified Service Projects and Programs through internal Calls or participation in PROEXT / MEC (University Extension - Service - Program / Ministry of Education), resulting in expansion of students participation, which reflects in an increase in the numbers of service scholarship demanded and offered, as well as, in the accession to the voluntary program of the Institution.