Resumo:
This article analyzes the extension practice from the project “Gender, Race, Sexuality and Religion Representations in
the 2014 Brazilian Elections” conducted between June and December 2014 in the city of Salvador/BA with the
support from PROEXT/UFBA. Tracing the social role of the university the text reflects on the University Extension as
an educational, cultural and scientific process that articulates Profesional Learning and Research. From political
training courses with women community leaders; the publication of informative material about the election campaign;
and ethnographic research, the project made possible the teaching of an extensive team of undergraduate and graduate
students who collectively produced the project results. With this, the article argues that the relationship between the
university and the community is structuring of the current higher education system in Brazil, specially with the
extension practices, and, with that, assumes its role in the social transformation and the quest for justice.
