In 2013 the European Commission launched a Social Investment Package to address the EU’s economic recovery policies’ lack of social dimension. It created big hopes for a – long overdue – paradigm shift in the EU’s approach to social and economic policies. However, the Package has not been able to live up to its expectations: the Union and the member states have failed to translate the set of proposals into concrete actions and it seems the social investment agenda has been put on the back burner. At this Policy Dialogue, a panel of experts discussed several options to revive the social investment agenda. Two papers – one written by the Young Foundation with the support of the Unipol Group, another written by the European Policy Centre (EPC) – served as input for the debate, which centred around the effectiveness of the current social investment initiatives, including the Juncker Plan, how to adequately asses the social impact of investments, the blending of public and private funds to foster social investments, and how to turn the narrative into real results.