It is no secret that European pupils in vocational education can lack reading skills and don’t always experience reading pleasure. This has been shown by the provisional Pisa-results. As the 3 countries involved in iRead in VET participated in PISA, it will be used as a reference in this KA2. The lowering score on reading comprehension is a worldwide challenge. Taking this data POV (BE), HOWEST (BE), Kethna Vocational Education Centre (EE) and Conlan School (IRL) express their mutual concern and want to challenge these vocational readers by using the methodology of Close Reading in the development of a game based learning platform for reading. Reading in a fun and interactive way encourages students to read better and more thoroughly via this educational game, developed by serious games developer Play-it (BE). As a project leader POV (BE) coordinated iRead.