The awards ceremony took place on July 5 at the Science 2024 Meeting. The winners of the Arquivo.pt 2024 Award were announced by the Público newspaper, the official communication partner of this edition.
It was at the Science 2024 Meeting in Alfândega do Porto that the best entries for this year's Arquivo.pt Prize received their awards. The 2024 edition had 27 entries in the competition, with three first-place winners and three honorable mentions awarded by the Público newspaper, the Aveiro Media Competence Center and .PT.
Every year, the initiative aims to distinguish works that use information preserved by Arquivo.pt - FCT's digital service, developed through FCCN, which allows you to search and access web pages archived since 1996.
1st place: News - Challenging perceptions
The winner of the first prize, which was awarded 10,000 euros, was the work "Noticioso - Desafiar percepções", developed by Carmen Fonseca and António Ramiro (Cubbo Team).
The project consisted of creating a platform on which users can compare media coverage of various topics using a game. It also makes it possible to explore trends over time using an analytical tool.
Interview with the winners of the Arquivo.pt Prize 2024.
2nd place: "Habitação.NET: A vision of the housing market in Portugal"
The prize of 3,000 euros and the distinction of runner-up in the competition went to Diogo Gonçalves for his work "Habitação.NET: Uma visão do Mercado deHabitação em Portugal" (Housing.NET: A view of the housing market in Portugal).
Through a tool that allows the user to interactively explore the evolution of the average value of the Portuguese housing and rental market, the project puts into context published news on the subject and housing policies.
Watch the full interview with Diogo Gonçalves about this award.
3rd place: Pegada Lusa
With a prize of 2,000 euros, the "Pegada Lusa" project, developed by Diana Costa and Sérgio Teixeira, completed the podium with third place.
The project shows the evolution of sustainable policies and initiatives in the various regions of the country, based on an analysis of the projects and good practices of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Interview with the third-place winners of the Arquivo.pt 2024 Prize.
Arquivo.pt Prize also awards three honorable mentions
Honorable mention Público newspaper
Público, the official partner of the 7th edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize, awarded its honorable mention to the work "A journey through time with Público and Expresso", by Rita Marques Costa and Beatriz Malveiro Jorge.
By analyzing and comparing the websites of Público and Expresso since 1998, the project shows how the digital versions of these media have evolved over time.
Watch the interview with the winners of this honorable mention awarded by the Público newspaper.
Honorable mention AMCC - Aveiro Media Competence Center
The second honorable mention was awarded by the Aveiro Media Competence Center (AMCC) to the work "discordAR: a Proximidade dos Partidos na Assembleia da República", by Miguel Salema and Sebastião Fonte. They created an app that shows the proximity between political parties, using votes in the Portuguese Parliament.
Find out more about this work by interviewing the winners.
Honorable Mention .PT
The DNS.PT Association awarded an Honorable Mention to the teacher who encouraged the submission of the work "ArquivoNC - the web archive of Jornal de Notícias da Covilhã", thus promoting the use of Arquivo.pt as a training and learning tool in the classroom.
The work was authored by student Rodrigo Dias da Silva, supervised by Professor Ricardo Campos, from the University of Beira Interior (UBI).
Interview with the winners of this honorable mention.
Arquivo.pt 2025 Award already confirmed
The next edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize has already been announced, so in 2025 there will be new prizes for the best works developed using the Arquivo.pt Prize.
New information will be available soon at https://sobre.arquivo.pt/pt/colabore/premios-arquivo-pt/ .
