TY - JOUR T1 - Introducing a new HERMES project on respiratory infections JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 5 LP - 7 DO - 10.1183/20734735.012515 VL - 12 IS - 1 AU - Alexandra Niculescu AU - Julie-Lyn Noel AU - Stefano Aliberti AU - Gernot Rohde Y1 - 2016/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/12/1/5.abstract N2 - In 2014, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) took the lead in harmonising training programmes in a field of emerging interest across Europe, respiratory infections. In order to establish defined standards of knowledge and skills in this new field, the ERS has launched the educational task force “Respiratory Infections” under the HERMES (Harmonised Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists) initiative (hermes.ersnet.org). Most countries do not have their own system for training physicians in respiratory infections. To fulfil this unmet need, the educational task force aims to support the harmonisation of training through different tools: in the first instance, by developing a training syllabus and curriculum for respiratory infections, and in the future, by designing educational resources that could lead to voluntary assessments and certification. In this editorial, we will focus on explaining the rationale behind the HERMES Respiratory Infections project and present the first steps in the development of a training syllabus.The development of a HERMES curriculum for training in respiratory infections is now in progress http://ow.ly/Y76aOThe authors would like to thank Sharon Mitchell (ERS, Lausanne, Switzerland) for the groundwork on this project.The members of the Respiratory Infections HERMES Task Force are Francesco Blasi (Università degli Studi di Milano & Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Milan, Italy, James Chalmers (University of Dundee, Dundee, UK), Felix Ringshausen (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany), Michael Loebinger (Royal Brompton Hospital, and Imperial College, London, UK), Giovanni Battista Migliori (Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy), Albert Osterhaus (University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany), Robert Read (Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK), Giovanni Sotgiu (University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy), Antoni Torres (Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) and Mark Woodhead (Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, and Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK). ER -