Education
ISM University of Management and Economics is a prestigious AACSB-accredited international university located in Vilnius, Lithuania. My focus is innovation and organisation management, applied to the non-profit sector — building capacity, scaling impact, and leading change-driven organisations. Studies supported by the EU4Belarus programme for political refugees.
A private university in Prague rooted in the CEVRO liberal think-tank, known for its focus on political economy, law, and social sciences. My program was uniquely interdisciplinary, combining economics, political philosophy, and jurisprudence. Studies supported by a scholarship from the Prometheus Foundation.
Belarus's oldest and highest-ranked university. Expelled after 3.5 years of studies for political reasons — a direct consequence of civic and opposition activism; academic performance was never in question.
Achievements & Awards
Winner — UN Human Rights Student Competition, "Rights of Vulnerable Groups" Category
Diploma awarded by the UN Representation in the Republic of Belarus to Piotr Markielau as the winner in the category "Rights of Vulnerable Groups" at the Student Human Rights Competition, organised jointly by the UN Representation in Belarus and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Minsk, 19 December 2012.
BSU Lyceum is a unique educational institution providing secondary education of the highest quality in Belarus, affiliated with Belarusian State University. Selected through competitive entrance for gifted students with strong aptitude in physics and mathematics.
Achievements & Awards
2nd Degree Diploma — XV Republican Research Conference (Physics)
Awarded by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus for outstanding performance at the XV Republican Competition of Student Research Works (Conference) in the physics section.
3rd Degree Diploma — Regional Stage of the Republican Physics Olympiad
Awarded by BSU Lyceum for high results at the III stage of the Republican Physics Olympiad.
Special Diploma — XXI Sakharov Readings International Scientific Conference
Awarded by the St. Petersburg Academic University — Scientific and Educational Centre for Nanotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Physico-Technical School Lyceum) for detailed research into acoustic phenomena in liquids. Paper title: "Liquid Under Sound" (physics section).
Nine years of formal music education at the children's arts school named after Belarusian composer Yevgeny Glebov. Studied in the piano class, developing classical performance technique, music theory, solfège, and ear training.
Informal Education
Beyond institutional learning, I'm a relentless autodidact — driven by curiosity across cryptography, distributed systems, political philosophy, and civic technology.
Educational initiative covering modern governance practices, institutional effectiveness, and public management transformation.
Practical training by Itransition covering object-oriented software development, design patterns, and professional teamwork — building toward a final application project with mentor support.
Residential programme by IFLRY and the Council of Europe covering non-formal education methodology, training cycle design, intercultural learning, rights-based approaches, and facilitation skills.
Training by Права Выбару — Belarus's independent election observation campaign — covering citizen monitoring methodology grounded in the principle that votes must be counted for democracy to function.
Residential fundraising programme by Fund for Good covering individual donations, grant writing, corporate giving, earned income, budgeting, stakeholder management, and marketing for civic organisations.
9-course professional certificate by IBM via Coursera covering data science methodology, Python, SQL, data analysis, visualization, and machine learning — with an Applied Data Science Capstone.
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Practical photojournalism course by the Belarusian Association of Journalists, led by Vadim Zamirovskiy (TUT.BY). Covered technical and compositional foundations, photojournalism genres, news shooting, photo essays, and newsroom standards.
Multi-stage Erasmus+ programme coordinated by European Intercultural Forum e.V. Covered youth empowerment frameworks, community needs assessment, theory of change, and social transformation project design.
Deep immersion in classical liberal thought at Theodor Heuss Akademie, led by Profs. Pierre Garello, Douglas Rasmussen, Dr. Steve Davies, and others — covering market theory, political philosophy, law, and metapolitics.
Residential workshop by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung) with Sourcefabric and n-ost. Focused on the socio-political role of blogging in transition countries — covering online security, source verification, social media strategy, open data, and open-source publishing tools.
Leadership programme by the Robert Schuman Institute covering political communication, donor relations, protest organising under hostile conditions, coalition building, and diplomatic protocol — delivered by practitioners from European parliaments and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Residential political education school by the Movement "For Freedom". Lectures by leading Belarusian thinkers covered the political system, economics, media, public policy, civil society, political psychology, and Belarus–EU relations.
Leadership programme by Students For Liberty — the world's largest libertarian student organisation. Covered effective communication of classical liberal ideas, organising civic communities, coalition building, and translating libertarian principles into practical activism.
Programme by the International Republican Institute building communications capacity within partner youth organisations under repressive conditions. Covered team building, online communication, counter-propaganda, public speaking, and working with independent media — culminating in a full campaign design.
Certification programme by Atlas Network covering strategic communications and marketing for civic organisations — from mission-rooted strategy to tactical execution for reaching new audiences in the battle of ideas.