Arquivo.pt Award 2019 announces 2nd edition winners

The winners of the Arquivo.pt 2019 award are now known. The announcement was made yesterday, during the first day of the Science Meeting 2019, at the Lisbon Congress Center, and the prizes for the three winners were presented by the Prime Minister, António Costa.

First place went to the meuparlamento.pt project. This consists of a mobile application that simulates the Portuguese Parliament, by Nuno Moniz, Arian Pasquali and Tomás Amaro.

Users of the APP are invited to play the role of a member of parliament and find out which party they most identify with, by simulating votes in plenary that have already been recorded.

In second place was the revisionista.pt project, an online tool that allows you to reveal changes that may have been made to news stories after they were first published. This work was authored by Flávio Martins and André Mourão.

The work "Public discourses on violence in private", by Zélia de Macedo Teixeira, was awarded third place. The project collected and analyzed 217 news items available from Arquivo.pt, from three of the main national daily newspapers, on the subject of domestic violence.

The prizes for the winners were 10,000 euros for 1st place, 3,000 for 2nd and 2,000 for 3rd. This year the Arquivo.pt award received a total of 23 applications, and the 3rd edition is already being prepared, with the application period running from January to May 2020.

Photographs by: Valter Gouveia | FCT