Affective and Multi-Perspective Map Communication
Maps can be compared to that tale in which three blind men are asked to describe an elephant. One man touches the elephant’s tail and says, “An elephant is like a rope.” Another touches the elep...
Cartography students at the congress DIGITALE WELTEN 2026
DIGITALE WELTEN 2025, a congress for geoinformatics and geodesy, took place on 27 January 2026 in the city hall of Dresden. Every year, this event offers a platform for face-to-face meetings with repr...
Ravenstein Prize 2025: Congratulations to our award-winning students
The Cartography M.Sc. program is delighted to announce that two of our students were honored at this year’s Ravenstein Prize 2025 award ceremony, held on November 5, 2025, at the Westermann educatio...
Alpine Cartography Field School 2025
Between September 30th and October 9th 2025 the Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS) took place in Ramsau/Dachstein (Austria) already for the 14th time since the start of the International Cartograp...
Discover some of our students’ maps!
Would you like to see the maps that our students have created? Here, you can view in detail the impressive maps they created for the Project Map Creation course this year, which was supervised by Manu...
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...
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...
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...
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....