Sarah R Davies (University of Vienna), Tereza Stöckelová (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University), Fredy Mora Gámez (University of Vienna), Roos Hopman (Humboldt University Berlin and Natural History Museum Berlin), and Patrick Bieler (Humboldt University Berlin) are co-organisers of the workshop ‘STS in context: Provincialising STS from central Europe’. This text has been written by them with additional comments from other workshop participants.