One aspect of the university contribution to regional development is service learning. The fifth book, Towards a Global History of Service-Learning, published as part of the Uniservitate Collection presents the origins, development and particularities of service-learning on five continents.

It is a compilation by Daniel Giorgetti, featuring works by international experts in this pedagogical practice, a number of whom have collaborated with PASCAL as part of the "Big Tent' of organisations concerned with the civic engagement role of universities and include : María Nieves Tapia, Andrew Furco, Kathleen Maas Weigert, Anthony Vinciguerra, Alba González, Esther Luna González, Carol Ma Hok-Ka and Bibi Bouwman.