As part of MRI’s increasing involvement on energy efficiency and energy poverty, Hanna Szemző attended the the seminar “Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change. Foresight & Policy Workshop on Energy Supply”, organised by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek – TNO) and the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Leiden. The seminar focused on the place and importance of social innovation in the energy sector, the mechanisms of to bring about change within the sector and the recommendations for policy makers to support this change both on national and on European level.