**GR15 – What was made with funds contributed**
**deScier REPORT April 3rd, 2023**

**TL;DR**
**Foreword and Foremost**
·   The Funding provided by you, our Grantors, during GR15 was a turning point for our decentralized science project, then named SciDAO.
·   SciDAO aimed to provide a solution for the highly monopolized, extremely unfair scientific publications’ industry.
·   It gave us instant access to meaning and authority and we cannot thank you enough for your contribution. Having participated in Gitcoin Round 15, the first ever to include #DeSci and being able to attract attention and contributions positively impacted us with a strong sense of belonging. And this was from day zero.

**A bit of history**
·   SciDAO was among the 4 projects to win a contest of more innovative during Blockchain Rio in September 2022.
·   As a result, SciDAO entered the Accelerated network, a DAO’s accelerator.
·   There was a merge with another DAO and we changed our name.
·   On October 11th, 2022 deScier was created.

**Use of contributions and matched funds**
1) We have been very busy. There has been a lot of activities on deScier. Whenever possible, activities were conducted voluntarily to make a better use of funds.
2) A landing page at https://descier.science was successfully created.
3) A request for comments-RFC page was created at https://publishing.descier.science for testing the editorial flow used by the Open Journal System-OJS.
4) Another RFC page was created to serve as forum and for team-writing of deScier white papers at http://discuss.descier.science
5) Some members of our Genesis team have been engaging on networking chats, talks and events’ participation either online or presential. 
6) An Alpha version for a decentralized scientific journal publication we called The DeSci Journal was launched in the last week of March 2023.
7)  DeSci Journal® was registered in the blockchain hash: https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x3c292bd7e3d434cee175315371af40ebdf8d9f7ef78a912da9eecf8bfa2f855c
8) To increase awareness on DeSci, we have applied and succeed in participating in the 2023 University of Campinas-Unicamp Permanent Forums. Unicamp ranks the 2nd in Brazil, 3rd in Latin America and among the first 200 worldwide (https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/noticias/2022/10/13/ranking-mantem-unicamp-como-segunda-melhor-universidade-do-brasil).
9) deScier will open Unicamp’s permanent forums on May 23rd, 2023 with a forum entitled  “Open and Decentralized Science: paradigms for research, development, democratization and access to science” https://www.foruns.unicamp.br/noticias/calendario-dos-foruns-2023
10) We have been invited to organize 2 DeSci satellite events.
11) The first satellite event will happen at University of São Paulo-USP on June 21st, 2023. We called this event DeSci Americas® and will invite members of the DeSci community from Brazil and abroad.
12) The second satellite event will happen at ExpoMAG-Rio de Janeiro on September 13th, 2023. We called this event DeSci Summit® and will invite members of the DeSci community from Brazil and abroad.