Save our Sharks
Save our Sharks was a project of the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance, in collaboration with the Dutch Raad van Staate and local nature organizations, focused
SevenSenses empowers people worldwide to tackle complex issues together and co-create the world they want to live in. We facilitate local stakeholders in this through Participatory Action Research, using local talent, manpower, materials and abundance. In this way, large groups, from all layers of society and system world, work together on their jointly designed, cost-effective solutions and innovations that truly fit their context and needs!
We conduct Partcipatory Action Research, provide trainings in PAR methodology, give public talks and more. Take a look!
Participatory Action Research is an approach that bridges research and practice through combining the best of both. PAR allows people to together tackle complex problems in their daily (work) life and move towards their ideal world. PAR processes empower communities of all layers of society, leading to unexpected, yet extraordinary effective results.
Start: Beginning of 2026
Duration: 3,5 months
Training days: 7 days, every other Monday
Location: Utrecht University
Language: Dutch
If you’re interested in participating or would like more information, feel free to contact us!
Want to know more? Read the book ‘Participatory Action Research – Working together for a better world‘ (3rd edition), written by Madelon Eelderink, founder of SevenSenses (in Dutch).
Are you facing a complex issue in your community, involving multiple stakeholders? Hire us for a Participatory Action Research!
Or do you prefer to become a Participatory Action Researcher yourself? Join one of our trainings or book us for an in-company training!
SevenSenses applies PAR in all kinds of settings, on all kinds of complex challenges, all over the world. Here you can find many of our Participatory Action Research projects performed since our establishment in 2013. Each project showcases the initial situation, outcomes, impact, team information, reports/blogs and to which Sustainable Development Goal it contributes. Comes in handy when you are looking for example PAR projects!
Save our Sharks was a project of the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance, in collaboration with the Dutch Raad van Staate and local nature organizations, focused
A Participatory Action Research to connect the system world and the living environment, so that residents, connectors, and professionals can together create a healthier neighborhood.
A PAR that empowers a slum community in Kampala, Uganda to together tackle the problem of lung disease due to indoor cooking.
A qualitative evaluation study on PAR, as used during the SevenSenses Challenges
This project aims at tackling the issues related to stigma against LGBTq+ sex workers new to the Netherlands. Particularly, in previous research conducted by SWARP
A Participatory Action Research into healthy living in the Rijnhuizen neighborhood in Nieuwegein.