Respiratory Sleep HERMES: new considerations in project development Launched in 2009, the European Respiratory

project aimed to design and implement core educational activities supported by a network of initiatives to standardise training and education in respiratory sleep medicine (fig. 1). Using the framework established by HERMES, the project task force has begun to move through each development phase suc-cessfully publishing a syllabus of what a respiratory sleep specialist should know [1], and supporting these modules through the publication of the ERS Handbook of Respiratory Sleep Medicine [2]. Perhaps the greatest challenge of the HERMES initiative is the application of a standardised methodology to medical special