The popular participation in the scope of social control aims to contribute with institutional controls so that the citizen collaborates in the definition of guidelines and diagnoses, in the indication of priorities, programs and actions, besides the evaluation of the results obtained.Actions to stimulate the exercise of citizenship and instrumentalization of these actors are developed in different states of the Brazilian federation, always with the purpose of strengthening the relationship between society and control institutions.The Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Tocantins (TCE-TO) started in 2017 a set of projects aimed at civil engineering services contracts and therefore developed in partnership with higher education institutions, specifically Civil Engineering courses.The actions developed to date have had a significant impact on the improvement of external control.Once partnerships are established with three higher education institutions, the project is initially developed in the Civil Engineering course at IFTO -Campus Palmas.So far 113 students have participated, totaling 10 manifestations in notices and 14 technical reports represented at the ombudsman of TCE-TO.All inspect buildings were publicly funded and delivered to the population at the time of the inspect less than 5 years ago.