Internships are meaningful means for the professional and personal growth of university students, as they enable real experiential learning. These collaborations are increasingly part of the higher education programmes across Europe, though the approach and variety can be certainly enhanced, as the available internships are not always fully aligned with the real professional skills students will need in the current and future industrial markets and the needed consideration of social and environmental issues.Social engagement, for its part, can play a relevant role in the learning processes, being the development of the social and civic values identified as one of the key competences for lifelong learning in the EU. Social responsibility goes even beyond social engagement, typically involving the operation in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Cooperation between academia and organizations can highly reinforce the social responsibility approach of organizations, e.g., through tailored service-learning experiences framed by effectively designed internships. It is worth noting that, while Universities in the social sciences have a wider experience on service-learning teaching strategies, Technical Universities have a long path ahead in implementing it.Internships with a social approach are then identified as relevant to train committed engineering professionals, with enhanced socio-civic values, as well as professional, leadership and entrepreneurial skills. In this context, IN4SOC aims to impact the way internships are designed across the EU in Technical Universities, by incorporating a socio-civic (SOC) module. Within the SOC internships, students thus have the opportunity to have an impact on corporate social responsibility aspects, while facing real-world challenges and reflecting on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), guided by a SOC supervisor.SOC students and industries are connected via the IN4SOC online tool, which serves to monitor the progress of the student during the internship. The monitoring has measured the level of acquisition of professional skills, including leadership, social and civic competence, and entrepreneurial motivations.The innovative approach has been applied and tested in pilot SOC internships in Technical Universities in 5 EU countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Spain and Portugal).The main outputs of the IN4SOC project have been:•Guidelines to formulate replicable socio-civic internships.•Checklist to identify SOC internships.•Guides for a successful SOC internship.•Rubric for SOC internships (SOC rubric).•IN4SOC online tool (web platform) that connects students, supervisors, and organizations.•IN4SOC toolkit to implement SOC internships in Technical Universities.The IN4SOC toolkit (which covers all intellectual outputs) is open to be used and replicated by other Universities, so that they can become IN4SOC members and manage the SOC internships among their students, supervisors and organizations (e.g. enterprises, public administrations, NGOs). It is worth noting that higher education institutions occupy a unique position within society, with a broad remit in the creation and communication of knowledge, having the power of driving global, national and local innovation. As a result, a greater network of SOC universities will enable a higher impact at local, regional, national and European level.The IN4SOC toolkit includes the SOC Label, to be awarded to organizations when they become part of the IN4SOC network, which will enable them to communicate their engagement in socio-civic and environmental issues, in line with the SDGs. The interest of organizations in corporate social responsibility is increasing, as a way to build trust with the community. IN4SOC enables the work on the SDGs, and thus we hope that this becomes a driver for an increasing number of SOC internships to be a reality.