Dear ESRS Members,The Wake-Up Bus is on its way through Europe to the EU Parliament.The bus project aims at raising awareness among general public of the importance of sleepiness as one of the main causes of road accidents.

An awareness campaign will be run by the National Sleep Society of each country visited by the bus (Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain) and of several countries (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Sweden) that cannot be reached due to time limitation.

The bus left Oporto on 3rd October and the journey will end with a meeting at the EU Parliament in Brussels on 15 October in which the EU Parliamentarians will be addressed by ESRS officers, ANSS members, and a panel of experts about “sleepiness at the wheel” related issues.

Please download the bus route to find out when the bus will be in your city.

The Wake-Up Bus project is jointly organized by:

• Prof. Marta Gonçalves, Initiator of the Wake-Up Bus Campaign (APS, Portuguese Sleep Association)
• Prof. Ludger Grote, ANSS Chair
• Prof. Roberto Amici, Coordinator ESRS EU Committee
• Prof. Philippe Peigneux, ESRS President

Follow the bus ride by watching the videos and photos uploaded on the fly and reading the news on the ESRS website at www.esrs.eu and follow ESRS_Sleep on Twitter to accompany the #ESRS #WakeupBus on its journey through Europe to the EU Parliament.

Best regards

Pierre-Hervé Luppi
ESRS Secretary
secretary@esrs.eu