General news Archives – Cartography M.Sc.

Award for Technical Excellence for MSc Cartography Students

Congratulations to our students Bea and Betty (14th intake) who won – together with three other studnets 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...

Apply for the 2025 intake of the Cartography Master programme!

Application for the 2025 intake (program start: October 2025) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2025....

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...

Apply for the 2024 intake of the Cartography Master programme!

Application for the 2024 intake (program start: October 2024) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2024....

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...

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...

The Best Digital Cartographic Projects of the Summer Semester 2023!

In the summer semester of 2023, Cartography M.Sc. students designed and developed digital cartographic projects within the LBS course at TU Vienna. We are happy to share with you the gallery of the be...

Cartography Master students visit the UN office in Vienna

On June 28, the students of the Cartography Master programme visited the UN office in Vienna (UNOV). The chief of the UN-SPIDER Programme at UNOOSA in Vienna, Lóránt Czárán, gave the students an e...

Apply for the 2023 intake of the Cartography Master programme!

Application for the 2023 intake (program start: October 2023) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2023....

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...

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...

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...

Erasmus Mundus scholarships available! Our programme is funded again by the European Commission

We are extremely excited to share with you that our Cartography Master programme will be funded again by the European Commission....

Apply for the 2022 intake of the Cartography Master programme

Application for the 2022 intake (program start: October 2022) is now open!...

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...

Are you ready to apply for the 2021 intake of the Cartography Master programme?

Just a reminder: The deadline to apply for the 11th intake of the Cartography Master programme is end of this month: 31 May 2021. ...

Apply for the 2021 intake of the Cartography Master programme

Application for the 2021 intake (program start: October 2021) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2021....

Award for excellent teaching goes to Juliane Cron

Each year, the Student Council for Aerospace and Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich awards the lecturers with the best teaching evaluations. We are very proud to announce that a lecture of ...

MSc Cartography Alumnus Presents at Geomundus Virtual Conference

Despite the challenges brought about by the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the annual Geomundus Conference were able to push through and successfully mount the event last 27-28 Novemb...

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...

Student story: Berlin Wall – An animated story on a 3D model

All of us have seen maps in museums and exhibition areas, which try to explain and show various dynamic processes and their geographical aspects. Some of them are traditional static maps, some of them...

And the award goes to… a Cartography Master Student!

Our sincere congratulations to Daphné Tapia from our 8th intake on the award “Best Nokia France Student” that she has received for her outstanding work at the Alcatel Submarine Networks! ...

Cartography student life during COVID-19 outbreak

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the universities closed their classrooms and labs for a while. But despite this time of uncertainty, we carry on and we have started a new exciting semester in a differen...

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...

Apply for the 2020 intake of the Cartography Master programme

Application for the 2020 intake (program start: October 2020) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2020....

Welcoming the 9th Intake of Cartography M.Sc.

The 9th Intake of Cartography M.Sc. has started their first semester at TU Munich. Congratulations to all of you with the start of this exciting journey in cartography! Altogether 25 students from 18 ...

Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting 2019

From October 10-12, 2019, the 1st Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting with more than 90 participants took place. The event was hosted by TU Munich. The alumni of all former intakes, fresh graduates, cu...

Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA) – General Assembly 2019

Armand Kapaj, an alumnus of Cartography M.Sc., presented our students and alumni at the Erasmus Mundus Association’s 12th General Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria this year. The Erasmus Mundus A...

Apply for the Cartography Master programme

Application for the 2019 intake (program start: October 2019) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2019....

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 ...

Apply for the Cartography Master programme

Application for the 2018 intake (program start: October 2018) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2018....

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...

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...

Home screen of the new Cartography M.Sc. website

Welcome to our new website

We are excited to announce the relaunch of our website. We hope that the new website is easier to read and navigate on a wide range of devices – from desktop and tablet to mobile phones. We also...

International Master in Cartography selected for Erasmus+

After four successful years, the Cartography M.Sc. has been selected for Erasmus+ by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Union. One section of the Erasmus+ programm...