Our section is active since many years and focusses their efforts on providing information about sleep and sleep-related disorders to clinical health professionals as well as to optimise diagnoses and therapy of sleep disorders. Since sleep is an interdisciplinary field, one of the main purposes is linking sleep specialists from all over the world. Thus, we hope that our section can mediate between theoreticians, practitioners, educational institutions, specialist societies and social institutes in order to improve the recognition of sleep disorders and their treatment.