FORES MEDIA LIMITED

Their core work

Fores Media Limited is the legal entity behind Tech.eu, a pan-European technology media outlet that covers the European startup and tech ecosystem through news, data, and editorial analysis. In EU research projects, they function as a communication and dissemination specialist — their value is not in building technology but in reaching the audiences that projects need: SMEs, investors, corporate R&D teams, and the broader innovation community. Their involvement in GEIGER (cybersecurity for SMEs) reflects a pattern of projects using Tech.eu's editorial reach to translate research outputs into actionable awareness for non-technical business audiences. As a media company with genuine European tech industry credibility, they fill a role that PR agencies and academic press offices typically cannot.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (LIFE, 2015-2016), Tech.eu contributed to a digital entrepreneurship network with no recorded keywords — suggesting a broad communication or storytelling role with minimal technical specialization. By 2020-2022, their GEIGER participation shows a sharper focus: cybersecurity for SMEs, engagement with CERTs and CSIRTs, and structured knowledge-transfer mechanisms like reverse mentoring. The shift is from general tech ecosystem storytelling toward targeted security awareness campaigns aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.

Tech.eu appears to be moving toward projects where translating cybersecurity and digital risk topics for non-technical business audiences is the primary contribution — making them a strong dissemination partner for security-oriented EU projects targeting the SME sector.

How they like to work

Tech.eu has never coordinated an H2020 project — they join as a specialist participant in large, multi-country consortia. With 32 unique partners across 16 countries spread across just two projects, they clearly plug into well-networked, ambitious initiatives rather than small bilateral efforts. Their role is almost certainly defined upfront as communication and dissemination, meaning consortium builders bring them in precisely to solve the "who will reach real businesses?" problem.

32 unique consortium partners across 16 countries from only 2 projects indicates consistent involvement in large, geographically diverse EU consortia. Their network skews European in line with Tech.eu's editorial focus on the European tech and innovation ecosystem.

What sets them apart

Tech.eu is one of the very few European tech media companies with a track record of formal EU project participation — most media outlets engage with research only through press releases, not as funded consortium members. Their editorial audience (investors, founders, corporate innovation teams, and SME decision-makers) is directly relevant to projects that need real-world uptake, not just academic dissemination. For a consortium building a project that must demonstrate market impact or SME adoption, Tech.eu brings something that no university communications office or professional services firm can replicate: genuine reader trust within the European tech business community.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GEIGER
  Largest project by far at EUR 146,125 and the most technically specialized — cybersecurity tooling for SMEs and their associations, with direct engagement of CERTs and CSIRTs, demonstrating Tech.eu's ability to operate in regulated, security-sensitive EU project environments.
• LIFE
  Early 2015-2016 participation shows Tech.eu's EU project engagement predates their current profile, and the entrepreneurship network focus aligns tightly with the startup ecosystem coverage that built their editorial reputation.