The winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2024 have been announced

It was at the Science 2024 Meeting, held at Alfândega do Porto on July 5, that the best entries for this year's Arquivo.pt Award received their distinctions. The 2024 edition had 27 Call, with the top three receiving awards. There were also three honorable mentions, awarded by the Público newspaper, the Aveiro Media Competence Center, and .PT.

This initiative annually recognizes works that use information preserved by Arquivo.pt —a digital service provided by FCT and developed through FCCN, which allows users to search and access web pages archived since 1996.

The first-place winner was the project“Noticioso – Desafiar percepções” (News – Challenging perceptions), developed by Carmen Fonseca and António Ramiro, which received €10,000. The project consisted of creating a platform where users can compare media coverage on various topics through a game. It also allows users to explore trends over time using an analytical tool.

Second place went to Diogo Gonçalves, with his work“Habitação.NET: Uma visão do Mercado de Habitação em Portugal” (Housing.NET: A view of the housing market in Portugal), with a prize of €3,000. Using a tool that allows users to interactively explore the evolution of the average value of the Portuguese housing and rental market, the project provides context with published news on the topic and housing policies.

Third place went to the“Pegada Lusa”project, developed by Diana Costa and Sérgio Teixeira, with a prize of €2,000. The project shows the evolution of sustainable policies and initiatives in different regions of the country, based on an analysis of projects and good practices related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Público newspaper, official partner of the 7th edition of the Arquivo.pt Award, gave its honorable mention to the work "A journey through time with Público and Expresso, " by Rita Marques Costa and Beatriz Malveiro Jorge.

The second honorable mention was awarded by the Aveiro Media Competence Center (AMCC) to the work“discordAR: the Proximity of Parties in the Assembly of the Republic,” carried out by Miguel Salema and Sebastião Fonte.

The DNS.PT Association awarded an Honorable Mention to Professor Ricardo Campos, from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), who supervised the submission of student Rodrigo Dias da Silva's 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 a classroom context.

The next edition of the Arquivo.pt Award has already been announced, and in 2025 there will be new awards for the best works developed using Arquivo.pt.