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and ICT are driving a radical change in the way energy is produced, transmitted and consumed. We are entering
the paradigm of SMART energy grids which is characterized by a fundamental shift from central and one-way
energy flow to a distributed and bidirectional one. Passive one-way communications and power flows from large
suppliers to consumers are replaced by a more active and decentralized energy paradigm. People and groups are
becoming prosumers of energy and gaining greater control over the use of the energy that they produce and
consume. Energy paradigms have always had a major role in shaping societies and people’s behaviors and we 17
acknowledge that also this paradigm change fosters innovation at the societal level. Indeed, citizens can now
benefits from energy tariffs that better supports their energy needs or economic constraints. At the same time,
they have the concrete possibility to produce energy or to cushion their own consumptions (e.g. with
photovoltaic panels or biomass heating). However, according to traditional approaches, this kind of innovation is
driven by an energy efficiency and optimization logic and it rests nearly exclusively on an economic level.
Citizens are seen as individuals who are asked to adopt efficient and CO2 compliant behaviors, and such a
request is mainly based on traditional economic incentives. The potential of the end-users as a social entity that
is capable of expressing multiple values, of collaborating with other peers, of aggregating into new social forms
and of conveying new needs while providing unforeseen novel solutions is almost completely neglected. Indeed,
the coupling of distributed renewable energy systems with the opportunities offered by ICT, allow for people to
get together for expressing a stronger negotiation power, dynamics of internal peer pressure towards virtuous
behaviors, and new forms of social and business innovations. CIVIS vision reflects the design of a socio-technical
system that enables these processes and can, at the same time, improve individuals’ quality of life and the
weakest segments of society ones'. Seemingly, such a system allows new business and social innovation models
to emerge whereby collective behaviors can dramatically change the current value chain and respond to the
societal challenges that we are facing. In this paper, we critically tackle the topic of Social Innovation. By
reflecting on CIVIS vision (an ongoing EU/FP7 funded project), we suggest how SMART energy systems should
be designed in order to sustain and promote sound and significant form of Social Innovation (SI). A kind of
innovation where: (i) changes go in the direction of helping the weakest segments of society; (ii) global
challenges and threats, such as climate change, are transformed into opportunities; (iii) changes promote
sustainable systemic transformation that empower citizens to play a more active role in social dynamics. The
presentation outlines the form of SI that can be triggered by the CIVIS project, identifies the critical challenges
that emerged during the first few months of project's life and the milestones ahead.