The project entitled "Maintaining outpatient care infrastructures in crisis situations - organizational concepts to increase the resilience of the care system (AUPIK)", which is funded by the BMBF until 2023, was launched in March 2020. The current corona pandemic has shown that outpatient care structures are particularly vulnerable in crisis situations. Similar risks exist in the event of prolonged and supra-regional power outages, flooding or other environmental disasters. The project analyses the role of outpatient care structures and civil protection in such situations, identifies possible interfaces between the actors involved and derives the necessary organizational measures. Part of the survey of the current situation is the investigation of the existing regulations in care and disaster control law for such disaster situations. To this end, Professor Dr. Erik Hahn was commissioned to prepare the legal report.

Prof. Dr. Erik Hahn teaches at the HSZG in the BA and MA "Management in Healthcare" and has been deputy chairman of the Saxon Arbitration Board under the Nursing Professions Act since 2019. In the care sector, he has recently devoted himself intensively to the topic of "outpatient assisted living communities" in accordance with Section 38a SGB XI. Among other things, he has published an article on this topic in the "Rechtshandbuch Wohngemeinschaften" ("Legal Handbookon Shared Accommodation") published by C.H.Beck-Verlag.

The leading project partners of AUPIK are the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the Institute for Health and Nursing Science at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the General Secretariat of the German Red Cross in Berlin and Vincentz Network GmbH & Co KG from Hanover. Further information on the project can be found here.