This case study presents the qualitative case study of a community-university partnership between the Peace and Region Semester (PRS), a service-learning curricular strategy of the University of Ibagué, and the Community Aqueduct Acuamiramar (CAA). It shares the approach of the PRS strategy, analysing the imbalance in power between the university and the community, and the tensions that arise between the framing of the knowledge culture in the university’s policies, its practice through the PRS program, and the relations with CAA. The results showcase the learnings of trying to undertaken an inter-disciplinary training program for students and the challenges in working across knowledge cultures.