The Lublin Scientific Society awarded the prestigious Lublin Region Scientific Distinction (Sertum Scientiarum Lublinense) for 2024 to the interdisciplinary team consisting of:

• Prof. Irena Rolska, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
• Prof. Jerzy Montusiewicz, Lublin University of Technology
• Prof. Marek Miłosz, Lublin University of Technology
• Dr. Jacek Kęsik, Lublin University of Technology

for scientific monographs in Polish and English developed as part of the project. The following monographs were distinguished:

• Irena Rolska, Jacek Kęsik. Archiwizacja Polskich Kościołów w USA. Studium przypadków. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 2024, 164 str. (https://tnkul.pl/ksiegarnia/historia/archiwizacja-polskich-kosciolow/)
• Jerzy Montusiewicz, Marek Miłosz, Jacek Kęsik. Cyfryzacja 3D obiektów dziedzictwa kulturowego Polonii w USA – dokumentowanie wyglądu i geometrii. Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne, 2024, 146 str. (https://polskiedziedzictwo3d.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cyfryzacja-3D-obiektow-dziedzictwa-kulturowego-Polonii-w-USA-final.pdf).

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Monograph “3D Digitization of Cultural Heritage Objects of the Polish Diaspora in the USA — Documenting Appearance and Geometry” by Jerzy Montusiewicz, Marek Miłosz, Jacek Kęsik // Polish Information Processing Society, ? 2024 in digital edition (ISBN 978-83-936692-6-4) is avaible (from 1.08.2024) here.

On July 22, 2024, an open-air exhibition: “3D digitization of Polish cultural heritage in the USA 2022-24” was opened at Plac Litewski (near the Europejski Hotel) in Lubin. The exhibition presents the work and achievements of the team implementing the project “Research on the national cultural heritage of the Polish diaspora in the USA and creation of digital memory collections”.

The exhibition will be available for 3 weeks.

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On July 22, 2024, at Plac Litewski in Lublin, next to the Europa Hotel, at 6:00 p.m., the opening of the exhibition “3D Digitization of Polish Sacred Heritage in the USA 2022-2024” will take place.
You’re welcome

Exhibition folder available for download here.

Nowe Radio from Lublin conducted an interview with members of the 3rd expedition. You can listen to it here: https://www.facebook.com/noweradio2020/videos/3939953982893947/

On May 13, 2024, the third expedition to the USA has returned to Poland.

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The third scientific expedition of the ECCC Foundation to the USA has begun, as part of the project “Research on the national cultural heritage of the Polish diaspora in the USA and the creation of digital memory collections”. The expedition will operate in rural areas of Wisconsin and Chicago (Illinois).

The expedition team:
Prof. Marek Miłosz (Lublin University of Technology); Prof. Jerzy Montusiewicz (Lublin University of Technology); Dr. Elżbieta Miłosz (Lublin University of Technology); Dr. Jacek Kęsik (Lublin University of Technology); Tomasz Rolski (Catholic University of Lublin) and Małgorzata Brzyska (ECCC Foundation).

More information about the results of the expedition after its completion.

Video from 3D scanning (available by the Academy of Modern Media and Communication of the Catholic University of Lublin) is available here or here.

The Digital Library of the Lublin University of Technology published videos-interviews with members of the team implementing the project: Prof. Jerzy Montusiewicz (here) and Prof. Marek Miłosz, prof. university (here). A large part of the speeches concerned the 3D digitization of cultural heritage.

We encourage you to listen and watch.

On April 4, 2024, the second photography exhibition was opened in the main hall of the John Paul II building of the Catholic University of Lublin. It was prepared as part of the project entitled “Research on the national cultural heritage of the Polish diaspora in the USA and the creation of digital memory collections” carried out in 2022-24 by the ECCC Foundation as part of the program of the Minister of Education and Science: “Science for society”, area: “Humanities-Society-Identity”.

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