Juliane Cron, Author at Cartography M.Sc.

Celebrating 15 Years of the Cartography Master – A Joyful Reunion in Munich

On 10 October 2025, alumni, students, and staff of the international Master of Science in Cartography gathered in Munich to celebrate the program’s 15th anniversary. The event brought together nearl...

Geospatial excellence: Our graduates honored with AGEO Award 2025

Our Cartography M.Sc. graduates, Ulrike Holfeld and Isaac Kissiedu, have both been honored with 4th place in the AGEO Award 2025 for their outstanding Master’s theses. Awardees of the AGEO Awards 20...

Goodbye from Vienna, dear students!

What a semester. Wednesday 25.06.2025 was a day of celebration as we held the farewell ceremony for all our wonderful cartography students! Students of the 14th intake of the International Cartography...

Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map

Our student Juliette Bricker has won the Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map in the 2024 Map Design Competition organized by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) for her o...

Award for Technical Excellence for MSc Cartography Students

Congratulations to our students Bea and Betty (14th intake) who won – together with three other students from TU Wien – the award for Technical Excellence within the Tech Design Sprint com...

Cartography students at the congress DIGITALE WELTEN 2025

DIGITALE WELTEN 2025, a congress for geoinformatics and geodesy, took place on 13 March 2025 in the city hall of Dresden. Every year, this event offers a platform for face-to-face meetings with repres...

Goodbye, Munich – Hallo! Vienna: The journey continues

Yesterday marked an important milestone—the final day of exams for the Cartography students of the 14th intake at the Technical University of Munich. As this chapter ends, so does their time studyin...

Hands-on learning through creative projects: First semester “Mapping Projects” at TUM

The first semester of the MSc Cartography programme at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) concluded with a creative and technical highlight: The “Mapping Project” presentations for t...

Welcoming the 14th intake: A new cartographic journey begins

From October 7–14, 2024, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) proudly hosted the Welcoming Week for the 14th intake of the international MSc Cartography programme. With 31 students from 24 count...

🎓 Graduation Ceremony – Cartography Cohort 12 🎓

On Friday, October 11, we celebrated the graduation of the 12th cohort of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program in Cartography! This incredible group—comprising 11 women and 9 men from 16 different ...

Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Congratulations to 20 years of Erasmus Mundus

This year, the Erasmus Mundus programme has its 20th anniversary. To mark this important landmark in the lifetime of the programme, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Cu...

Three student maps selected to be featured in the next volume of ‘The Atlas of Design’

We are thrilled and proud that three maps created by our MSc Cartography students and alumni made it into the final selection of maps in Volume VII of ‘The Atlas of Design’. Milana Glebova...

Cartography students presenting their project at the congress DIGITALE WELTEN 2024

DIGITALE WELTEN 2024, a congress for geoinformatics and geodesy, took place on 27 February 2024 in the city hall of Dresden. Every year, this event offers a platform for face-to-face meetings with rep...

Goodbye Munich! Welcome to Vienna!

The 13th intake of our Cartography students has finished the first semester at TU Munich. It is now time to move a new university and start the second semester at TU Vienna. The semester in Munich pas...

Mapping Projects of the Winter Semester 2023/2024 at TUM

Cartography MSc students of the first semester at TUM developed data visualization methods, prototypes, and cartographic designs using different tools and digital media within the Mapping Project cour...

Cartography MSc graduate Mihir Desai in conversation with Crossmopollinate

Cartography M.Sc. graduate Mihir Desai (11th intake) participated in a podcast hosted by ‘Crossmopollinate’, the research lab of ‘Co/Lab’, which is a collective of researchers ...

Congratulations to all our 2023 graduates!

On 15 December 2023, 19 graduates celebrated their graduation. This year the ceremony was held at TU Dresden. These students began their studies at TU Munich in the winter semester of 2021, spent furt...

Cartography alumni at LBS conference

We were delighted to see that five of our former MSc Cartography students, Lin Che (intake 2020, now at ETH Zürich), Zulfa ‘Afifah (intake 2022, now at University of Augsburg), Yiwei Wang (inta...

Welcoming the 13th intake!

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. We were welcomed in the MSc Cartography program. The Welcoming Week took place from October 9 to 16, 2023 at the main campus of the Techncal Uni...

Celebrating our 200th graduate!

Today, we have the privilege of celebrating a remarkable milestone of the MSc Cartography: the graduation of the 200th student from the programme. Congratulations to Julia Schiller from the 11th intak...

Accessible Places, Everywhere – An Interactive Vernissage of Maps Created by our Students in the 1st Semester at TUM

In our 2023 Mapping Project we focused on barrier-free maps to improve the mobility of people with visual or mobility impairments. During the project we had the chance to get first-hand input from the...

Graduation ceremony of the 10th intake

On Friday, the 2nd of December, the Research Unit of Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology hosted the Cartography M.Sc. graduation ceremony. This year, 24 students successfully graduated ...

Hiking in the Eastern Ore Mountains

On the Day of Prayer and Repentance – a public holiday which is held in Saxony only – a small group of seven students withstood the cold fall weather and hiked along the Eastern Ore mounta...

Welcome 12th intake!

The Welcoming Week 2022 took place between 10 – 17th October at the main TUM campus in Munich. Altogether 20 students from 16 different countries enrolled this year. Our newcomers had a very busy...

Alpine Cartography Field School 2022

Between September 26th and October 5th 2022, the Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS) took place in Ramsau/Dachstein (Austria) already for the 11th time since the start of the International Cartogra...

Student story: A summer school in a future farm city in the south of Vienna.

Choosing what to do during the summer break is a challenge and a big decision for every student in the Cartography Master. While a break is more than needed and deserved, three months of holidays soun...

How I Met Your Mapper – An interactive vernissage of maps created by our students in the 1st semester at TUM

We just completed our 2022 Mapping Project. Cartography MSc students of the first semester at TUM developed data visualization methods, prototypes, and cartographic designs using different tools and d...

Student story: Cartography M.Sc. students participated at the International Cartographic Conference 2021 in Florence, Italy

The 30th International Cartographic Conference took place in December 2021 in Florence, Italy. For the first time, the conference was organized in a hybrid format. Despite the pandemic circumstances...

Girls & Women Talking Tech

Our Cartography MSc students Darya Lappo and Tang Gongmingyue conducted interviews for the ‘Girls & Women Talking Tech’ series. The interview with Lara Prades from the UN World Food Pr...

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented maps

A lot of maps have been created in the last months showing all kinds of statistics and impacts of the Coronavirus. Cartography MSc students of the 10th intake created their COVID-19 maps and presented...

Our 9th intake started the 3rd semester at TU Dresden

Alpine Cartography Field School, Hiking in the Saxon Switzerland NP, Mapping with cartographer Dr. Rolf Böhm The winter semester 2020/2021 at TU Dresden is off to a very good start, despite the curre...

Munich goodbye! Welcome to Vienna!

The 9th intake of our Cartography students has finished the first semester at TU Munich. It is now time to discover a new city and start the second semester at TU Vienna. The semester in Munich went v...

Student story: My summer working with the British Red Cross’s International Family Tracing team

I spent my summer working with the British Red Cross’s (BRC) International Family Tracing team. The team supports enquirers in their search for family members that they have lost contact with. Many ...

Student story: My Internship at Alcatel Submarine Network

Who has ever thought that our internet connection, phone calls and favorite TV show on Netflix were dependent on cables laying under the sea? Contrary to the common thought, more than 90% of our commu...

Cartography alumni Martin Hilljegerdes presented his master thesis work at the ISCRAM conference in Valencia

The 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) took place in the city of Valencia (Spain), May 19-22, 2019. It succeeded again to gather an intern...

First Cartography alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova obtained a PhD degree

We are happy and proud to announce, that the first Cartography M.Sc. alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova from the 2nd intake finished her PhD research and defended her dissertation last Tuesday, January 22nd ...

Discovering Dresden and Saxony

During their semester in Dresden we offer our students a selection of social events to gain some insight into local characteristics that are a bit off the beaten track. This year, a trip to the Saxon ...

Alpine Cartography Field School 2018

In early October, 23 students of the Cartography M.Sc. programme and three students of the TU Dresden Master programme Geoinformation Technologies made their way towards the small mountain village of ...

Maria Rühringer presented her master thesis at the Ecosystem Service Partnership Regional Europe conference

From the 15th until the 19th of October the Ecosystem Service Partnership Regional Europe conference 2018 took place in San Sebastián in Spain. Ecosystem Services express the interactions between hum...

Guest Seminar on Visual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data

From 19th to 21st of November, Dr. Georg Fuchs from Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS visited TUM. Georg gave very interesting guest lectures and a workshop to...

Honorary doctorate to Georg Gartner

We are very proud to announce that the Senate of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest awarded the title of professor et doctor honoris causa to Georg Gartner on November 9, 2018 at the celebration ...

Welcome 8th intake!

A new student intake started the Cartography Master programme. This year we are proud and happy to welcome 30 students from 19 different countries! The sun was shining the whole welcoming week and the...

Susanna Abraham is 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year

Our alumna Susanna Abraham has been selected as 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year. Susanna successfully finished her master thesis in our international Master of Science in Cartography...

#Cartosquad16 Farewell Party

After spending last three semesters together and sharing experiences of participating in interesting and challenging projects and exams, and of studying and living in different European cities, this F...

Congratulations to 10 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates

We are happy to congratulate the next students from the 5th intake who finished their Master’s thesis in the last three months: Susanna Abraham, Kaidi Guo, Christopher Hogg, Kamila Cwik, Alika Jen...

Cartography students at GeoMundus 2017 conference

On the 10th and 11th of November the 9th GeoMundus Conference took place at the Institute of Geoinformatics (IFGI) of the University of Münster, Germany. Organized by students of the Erasmus Mundus M...

Guest lecture and workshop by Fraunhofer IAIS on Visual Analytics

As every year, our colleagues and associated partners from Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS visited TUM and provided guest lectures and a special workshop con...

Alpine Cartography Field School 2017

With a record participation of 21 students of the Master programme “Cartography” and 10 students of the TUD Master programme “Geoinformation Technologies” this year’s Alpine Cartography Fiel...

Two awards for Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat

During the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017 which took place in Wuhan, China, Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat (1st intake) received the “Best youth oral paper award” as well as the ov...

Welcome new students of the 7th intake

On the 9th of October the 7th intake started the Cartography Master programme. This year, a whole welcoming week was organized and we think it was the first highlight of their studies for the new grou...

Cartography M.Sc. will continue as Erasmus Mundus programme

We are happy to inform you that our international Master of Science programme in Cartography was successful again and has been selected for Erasmus+ by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive...

TUW’s “Best Lecture Award 2017” goes to Florian Ledermann

This summer term, TUW awarded the „Best Teaching Awards“ for the first time to acknowledge teaching staff for outstanding commitment in university teaching. Students and members of TUW nominat...

Cartography EMA representative Armand Kapaj reports about the general assembly and annual conference

My journey as an Erasmus Mundus student started in May 2016 when I received the confirmation for being selected as a student of the International Master Programme CARTO E+ JMD Cartography. I have to a...

Master’s thesis presentation of Aleksandra Draksler

On March 28, Aleksandra Draksler, student of the 4th intake, presented her Master thesis “The Effect of Satellite Image Resolution and Minimum Mapping Unit on the Accuracy of Forest Cover Maps&#...