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The article presents a research design for the evaluation of the Third Mission in the university context. Given the consulting processes as intermediate outcome mechanisms, the article reports a common theoretical framework that considers the Third Mission as a strategic process integrated, top down and bottom up, with Teaching-Research- Impact/Valorisation of Research, rather than as a isolated and stratified element within the university organization chart. Comparing three different evaluation models, the article finally suggests a set of indicators useful and usable to assure an integrated Third Mission evaluation practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]