[1] Valeriu Zgonea attended the courses of the "Frații Buzești" National College from Craiova from 1981 till 1985.

He was admitted to the Faculty of Railways, Roads and Bridges Construction in the Bucharest Institute of Civil Engineering.

In January 2001, he participated in the Program for the Study of Political Communication and Media Relations, held in Washington by the National Democratic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During the same period he graduated the negotiation course organized by the United States Institute of Peace.

In August 2001, he was a student at the University of Amsterdam, following Professor Phil Nobel's famous course "Internet and Politics".