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&#...