Arquivo.pt Award 2019 announces winners of its second edition

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

The winner was the meuparlamento.pt project. This is a mobile application that simulates the Portuguese Parliament, created by Nuno Moniz, Arian Pasquali, and Tomás Amaro.

APP users are invited to play the role of a member of parliament and discover the party they most identify with, through the simulation of plenary votes that have already been archived.

Second place went to revisionista.pt, an online tool that reveals changes that may have been made to news articles after their initial publication. This project was created by Flávio Martins and André Mourão.

The work "Public Discourses on Private Violence," authored by Zélia de Macedo Teixeira, was awarded third place. The project collected and analyzed 217 news articles available on Arquivo.pt from three major national daily newspapers on the topic of domestic violence.

The prize money for the winners was €10,000 for first place, €3,000 for second place, and €2,000 for third place. This year, the Arquivo.pt award received a total of 23 applications, and the third edition is already in preparation, with applications open between January and May 2020.

Photographs by: Valter Gouveia | FCT