Supported by the EU programme:	SOCRATES Observation
Coordination:	Institute for German Language, Literature, and Didactics LEUPHANA University of Lueneburg (Germany)
Participation:	Twelve partners from 11 EU-member states
Project’s duration:	February 2007 – February 2009

The main objectives of the project have been:

• Initiating a multi-disciplinary dialogue between European reading researchers, teachers and other professionals about reading instruction,
• Better understanding of the special needs of struggling adolescent readers in relation to their national, social, cultural, and linguistic environments,
• Developing a guide to good practices: international handbook with case studies about 11 European countries and a theoretical framework,
• Establishing a network of reading researchers, teachers and other professionals in the field of adoles-cent literacy.

The major questions were:

• What are the consensuses and dissensions between European reading researchers and practitioners concerning criteria for good practices?
• Which approaches in encouraging reading have been established by the participating countries due to their different educational and curricula traditions?