A combined Educational Research Centre/St Patrick’s College grouping is part of a consortium, headed by the University of Koln, Germany, which has been awarded a two-year grant by the European Commission to establish a European Policy Network of National Literacy Organisations’ (ELINET). The Centre is likely to be asked to work on additional analyses of PIRLS 2011 data for European countries that will then feed into policy deliberations. The Project will run for two years from February 1st, 2014.