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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.
Press contact: media@driveawake.ch
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 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
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.
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, which do not amount to twelve identified metabolites. 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: 25.08.2026
| 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 |