The Arctic faces multiple pressures including climate change, shifting demographics, human health risks, social justice imbalances, governance issues, and expanding resource extraction. A convergence of academic disciplines—such as natural and social sciences, engineering and technology, health and medicine—and international perspectives is required to meaningfully contribute to solving the challenges of Arctic peoples and ecosystems. However, successfully carrying out convergent, international research and education remains a challenge. Here, lessons from the planning phase of a convergence research project concerned with the health of Arctic waters developed by the Arctic Science IntegrAtion Quest (ASIAQ) are discussed. We discuss our perspective on the challenges, as well as strategies for success, in convergence research as gained from the ASIAQ project which assembled an international consortium of researchers from disparate disciplines representing six universities from four countries (Sweden, Japan, Russia, and the United States) during 2018–2020.

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共同目标是融合研究的错误希望吗？：应对北极变化的国际融合研究的机遇与挑战

北极面临多种压力，包括气候变化，人口结构变化，人类健康风险，社会正义失衡，治理问题以及扩大资源开采。需要融合自然科学和社会科学，工程技术，健康与医学等学科和国际视野，才能对解决北极人民和生态系统的挑战做出有意义的贡献。然而，成功进行融合的国际研究和教育仍然是一个挑战。在这里，讨论了北极科学整合任务（ASIAQ）开发的与北极水域健康有关的融合研究项目的计划阶段的经验教训。我们讨论了对挑战的观点以及成功的策略，