Przemysław Czarnek unveiled the new facility on the grounds of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) in Dziekanów Leśny near Warsaw, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
The new Multidisciplinary Research Centre (MCB) encompasses a 3D Printing Lab, a supercomputer, dubbed CATO, and tools for creating 3D interactive material, officials said.
'Bridge between science and industry'
As he opened the new research facility, Czarnek said on Wednesday: “The idea of a 3D printing lab, the opportunities it offers and the fact that this is a leading centre of its kind in Poland, means there is no doubt that such projects should be supported.”
He added: “It is indeed a bridge between science and industry. It is indeed a marvellous facility, which should also be treated as a wonderful monument, a practical monument to Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński.”
Czarnek said that such a tribute to Wyszyński, who led Poland’s Catholic Church under communism and was dubbed the Primate of the Millennium, "is especially important at a time when we need role models.”
The new research centre is designed “to respond to the needs of the current industrial transformation, which includes green technologies and advanced production technology,” reporters were told.
The brand-new facility is expected to develop the university’s expertise in the digital sciences and help create innovative technological solutions that will be implemented in the economy and contribute to digital transformation, according to officials.
Comprehensive 3D printing
The new 3D printing lab is a one-stop shop designed to carry out the full scope of research and application projects, from initial concepts based on numerical models up to the finished product; it is equipped with cutting-edge technology, including the so-called 3D Printer for Metal, called Aconity MINI, officials told reporters.
The lab is one of only a few such facilities in Europe and the first of its kind in Poland, according to the UKSW.
Co-financed by the European Union and the private sector, the new Multidisciplinary Research Centre is being developed by the UKSW in partnership with Poland's Military Institute of Aviation Medicine (WIML) and the National Information-Processing Institute (OPI-PIB), the IAR news agency reported.
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Source: IAR, uksw.edu.pl