The Arquivo.pt 2025 Award is now open for entries and the FCCNthe digital services unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT), recalled the testimony of the winners of the 2024 edition, who shared their experience in order to encourage others to take advantage of this opportunity.
"This award brings us recognition and attracts people to these topics"
"noticioso.pt" was the work developed by António Ramiro and Carmen Fonseca that won first place in last year's edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize. The project compares people's perceptions of media coverage in Portugal over the years: 2000 to 2020.
For Carmen Fonseca, "it was a great pleasure and honor, given the prestige that the FCT represents as an institution, and to see our work bearing fruit - and being disseminated and used - which is, above all, what we want".
"The award helps, firstly, with the financial resources that allow us to continue the project and, secondly, it brings recognition and attracts people to these topics. Not only to our project, but also to the message we want to convey: to encourage people to think about media coverage in Portugal," said António Ramiro.
"It's good to realize that works that use Arquivo.pt can get this recognition"
Second place in the Arquivo.pt 2024 Prize went to Diogo Gonçalves, responsible for his work "Habitação.NET", a project that allows you to observe the evolution of housing prices in Portugal, interacting with news items that put this price into context and giving you a perspective on how the market behaved before compared to today. Information from any district, municipality or parish is integrated here, giving a local view of housing prices.
The author of the project shared his testimony: "The feedback has been incredible, it's nice to realize that work that uses Arquivo.pt can get this help and recognition. The idea is that, as Arquivo.pt makes new data available, it will continue to feed the project itself, allowing people to observe the evolution of housing prices in Portugalfor many more years."
"The exposure of this award can project our careers"
Diana Costa and Sérgio Teixeira were awarded third place. "Pegada Lusa" offers a retrospective of sustainability policies and practices applied in Portugal. The project involves a regional perception, through the newspapers of each district, and a close look at the best and worst things that have been done for sustainability in each region of the country, through artificial intelligence algorithms, making a more global analysis that shows the evolution of these policies and their implementation at national level.
In their testimonial, the two authors say: "We were very happy with this award. Right from the start, we found the Arquivo.pt Award very interesting, and the idea of creating this project on sustainability came up. It was all so simple and quick - during maternity and paternity leave - that we really didn't expect to create something that would make the top three. On a professional level, the exposure of this competition can project our careers and perhaps open doors for other projects in the future."
Applications for the Arquivo.pt 2025 Award until May 6th
If you want to follow the example of the 2024 winners and be one of the recipients of this year's this year's Arquivo.pt Prizeyou can and should apply until May 6. All you have to do is submit an individual or group work on any topic, which is innovative and whose main source of information was Arquivo.pt.
In this edition, 1st place receives a prize of €10,000; second place receives a prize of €3,000; and 3rd place receives a prize of €2,000. For the first time, the 50 Years of April 25 Commemorative Commission is awarding a work that uses Arquivo.pt to address the theme "April 25 and Democracy" with a prize of €5,000.
The remaining honorable mentions were awarded by the Aveiro Media Competence Center Consortium (AMCC), the DNS.pt Association (.PT) and the Público newspaper. The Arquivo.pt 2025 Award also has the High Patronage of the President of the Portuguese Republic.
