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This is where the project speaks in its own voice.
Updates, letters and statements: no noise, only what matters. The platform is the home; the newsletter points back only here.
Embargoed releases, media kit, boilerplate and sourced facts: all press material on a dedicated page.
Press contact: media@driveawake.ch
Newsletter
The first eight hours
Our September letter: the 24 Hours campaign online in draft, eight episodes out of twenty-four in four languages, and a request for help reviewing it before the November launch.
Four voices from Monte Verità
Our August letter: the first four World Sleep Forum interviews online in four languages, and an island that stops.
The anniversary newsletter
Our July letter: ten years on from the case, sleepiness at the wheel and where the science stands today.
How present are we, really?
Our first communication since the restart: science, documentary and prevention, in four languages.
The October letter
In preparation. It goes out when the platform and the materials are ready.
The question
A space on presence, sleep and attention, between science, cultures and storytelling. Soon.
The platform is the home: the newsletter points back only here. All communications are archived and dated. Full archive →
Recent updates
Most recent first. Every entry carries its date and the link to the page that tells it.
The September letters and entries describe the state on that day (archive), not the current one.
The first eight hours are online
One episode for every hour of the day, under a minute each, in four languages. The first eight hours are published as drafts: the campaign starts in November 2026.
An open-air workshop
The 24 Hours episodes are declared drafts and stay open until October. On every page there is a form to report a mistake, a turn of phrase that sounds wrong, a translation to review.
The seventh voice: Raffaele Ferri
The Scientific Director of the IRCCS Oasi in Troina and Past President of the World Sleep Society is the seventh published voice: shared guidelines for expert reports after a crash, a written reference for judges and consultants.
The sixth voice: Francesca Siclari
Neurologist, Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and head of the Sleep & Dreams Group at the NIN: sleep as a third state of being, between wakefulness and absence.
The fifth voice: Pierre Philip
Professor and head of university sleep medicine in Bordeaux: social jet lag and its effects on driving, prevention on the move and the French national sleep plan.
When an island decides to stop
Nyepi, the Balinese Day of Silence: Bali stands still for twenty-four hours. A cultural reading on the legitimacy of stopping, in four languages.
A public health service
“You are doing a great public health service.” When his voice went online, Carlos H. Schenck wrote us these words. Quoted with written permission, now on a dedicated page.
The fourth voice: Mauro Manconi
The EOC sleep neurologist and scientific coordinator of the World Sleep Forum is the fourth published voice, with signed consent: the driver's responsibility, the sleep attack at the wheel, three expectations from the forum.
The first three Monte Verità voices are online
Gianini (ACS), Silber (Mayo Clinic) and Schenck (University of Minnesota): author pages with video subtitled in four languages, each with signed consent. The other voices are in the making.
Before August 2026
Quinto. When sleepiness had no name.
Ten years since the A2 Leventina case: sleepiness at the wheel and the limit of proof. The project's reference node.
Acute sleep deprivation: a molecular trace in saliva
An IRM-UZH study (20 healthy young men, three controlled conditions) distinguishes acute sleep deprivation with a classifier of 12 molecular features in oral fluid. A laboratory proof of concept: not a validated roadside test, and it does not diagnose sleep apnoea.
Drive Awake is a partner of this research programme, supported by FVS.
Platform renewed, Sleep Science launched
Drive Awake relaunches with a multilingual platform (IT/FR/DE/EN) and a new scientific editorial section, Sleep Science. Digital production by Opening®.
Launch of the multilingual social campaign on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Visit to the IRM Zürich laboratories at the University of Zurich: forensic medicine, sleep research, metabolomics.
Start of the collaboration with Dotwords, a digital communication agency, supporting the social campaign.
The Drive Awake NAS system is operational with the scientific partners.
World Sleep Forum, Monte Verità: interviews with leading researchers on circadian sleep and driving risk.
Start of the partnership with IRM Zürich: scientific collaboration on sleep biomarkers.
Last revision: 09.09.2026
| 09.09.2026 | Newsletter issue 4 (September); the 24 Hours campaign enters the communications |
| 25.08.2026 | New section "The echo of the voices" with the authorised quote by Carlos H. Schenck |
| 24.08.2026 | Newsletter issue 3 (August); Monte Verità and Nyepi updates |
| 23.07.2026 | Press office moved to a dedicated page (/press.php); Quinto entries de-duplicated |
| 21.07.2026 | Data-driven updates, section reorganised |
| 13.07.2026 | Communications hub launched |