This paper studies what factors influence European citizens in their e-government adoption and use, and whether there are differences within the European Union. A binary logistic regression model has been used to determine the profile of e-government users. The article highlights especially the influence of digital skills, as an increasingly influential factor, and opens up new areas of research such as the uses of e-government depending on the population density or sociodemographic factors. Given a certain lack of e-government studies at a pan-European level, this article provides an empirical comparative analysis in the EU and provides insights into the factors influencing the behaviour of European e-citizens.

This paper looks in more depth at an analysis of MOOC students’ social entrepreneurial intentions, their profiles and motivations, especially as regards the tensions between internal and external motivations and the influence of the environment on the decision to set up a social enterprise. It also offers insights into online education for social entrepreneurs, as we believe that a better understanding of such training and its participants may help to stimulate social entrepreneurship from the educational sphere. Using a large sample obtained from a survey of 1457 respondents, our study offers a new perspective on distance learning social entrepreneurship students’ socio-demographic characteristics and the importance of both their desire for self-fulfilment and the influence of their environment.