News – Cartography M.Sc.

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...

9th intake, General news

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...

General news

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....

12th intake, General news

Apply for the 2022 intake of the Cartography Master programme

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

10th intake, TU Wien

Ravenstein-Förderpreis for Nele Peschel

Congratulations to our M.Sc. student Nele Peschel for winning the Ravenstein-Förderpreis in the category students with Mapping SÁMI Languages. Designed in the Project Map Creation during her summer...

10th intake, TU Wien

Map by Jonathan King represents January in 2022 GeoHipster Calendar

We are excited to share that Jonathan King’s map “Navigation Nightlights – Midcoast Maine’s Lighthouses” is part of the 2022 GeoHipster Calendar. The 2022 calendar from G...

10th intake, General news

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...

10th intake, TU Dresden

Social Activities after the semester start at TUD

Hiking in the Saxon Switzerland NP The Saxon Switzerland National Park (Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz) is only a 45-minute train ride away from Dresden main station and was the location of the firs...

11th intake, TU München

Welcome 11th intake!

The Welcoming Week 2021 took place between 11 – 18th October at the main TUM campus in Munich. It was finally possible to celebrate it as an on-site event after we followed all the safety regulati...

10th intake, TU Dresden

10th Anniversary of the Alpine Cartography Field School

Between September 29th and October 8th 2021 the Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS) took place in Ramsau/Dachstein (Austria) already for the 10th time since the start of the International Cartograp...

10th intake, TU Wien

Farewell to the 10th intake at TU Wien

The 10th intake of the International Master Programme in Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for their third semester. After another semester of distanc...

11th intake, General news

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. ...

9th intake, intakes

Placing Poems – A poetic side project by one of our students

We are happy to feature Placing Poems, a project by Ceren Dolma, student of 9th intake of the Cartography Master programme: To find a poem near you, visit the interactive map at https://placingpoems.c...

10th intake, TU München

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...

11th intake, General news

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....

8th intake, 9th intake

Map by Milana Glebova and Nikita Slavin represents November in 2021 GeoHipster Calendar

The Moscow buildings map by our students Milana Glebova (9th intake) and Nikita Slavin (8th intake) has been selected and is part of the 2021 GeoHipster Calendar. The interactive Moscow map can be vie...

General news, TU München

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 ...

8th intake, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

Congratulations to the Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2020

The summer semester 2020 was a very special one due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Normally, students in the 4th semester are moving to one of our four university locations to start their thesis research. ...

8th intake, General news

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...

9th intake, TU Wien

Map of Jakob Listabarth featured in the Atlas of Design Volume 5

The Atlas of Design is published by the North American Cartographic Information Society and includes some of the world’s most beautiful cartographic designs. Map makers are invited in a worldwide co...

9th intake, General news, TU Dresden

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...

10th intake, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

Welcome 10th intake!

A new student intake started the Cartography Master programme. Of course, we imagined something completely different to celebrate and welcome our anniversary intake, but we are glad that we could orga...

1st intake, Alumni, UTwente

Congratulations Dr. Shayan Nikoohemat

The Cartography M.Sc. partner universities are proud to announce that Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat from the 1st intake finished his PhD research and defended his dissertation successfull...

5th intake, Alumni

Congratulations to Maja Kalinic for winning the best paper award

We congratulate our alumna Maja Kalinic for the first place in the best paper award evaluation for papers published in Taylor & Francis – Annals of GIS in 2019. Majas paper is about “Fuzzy...

9th intake, General news, TU München

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...

9th intake, TU Wien

Farewell to the 9th intake at TU Wien

The 9th intake of the International Master Programme in Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for their third semester. After a full semester of distance ...

8th intake, Alumni, General news, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

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! ...

10th intake

Application deadline for self funding students extended until June 30

Due to the current situation, the application deadline for self-funding students for the 2020 intake (program start: 1.10.2020) has been extended until 30 June 2020....

8th intake, 9th intake, General news, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

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...

9th intake, General news, TU München, TU Wien

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...

9th intake, TU München

From idea to implementation: Mapping Project presentations at TUM 2019/2020

The 9th Intake of Cartography MSc presented their results of the semester work within the Mapping project course, an elective module that aims at developing data visualization methods, prototypes, and...

10th intake, General news

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....

8th intake, 9th intake, TU Wien

Ravensteinpreis: Congratulations to Jenny Janssen and Jakob Listabarth

The Ravenstein-Förderpreis is a sponsorship award to foster young cartographers in Germany (and German-speaking countries). On October 17, this years’ award ceremony took place in Frankfurt. We...

9th intake, General news, TU München

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 ...

8th intake, Alumni, General news

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...

8th intake

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 ...

7th intake, Alumni, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

Congratulations Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2019!

As the summer semester came to the end, 19 Cartography M.Sc. students successfully finished their theses at TU Munich, TU Vienna, University of Twente and TU Dresden. Congratulations to the new gradua...

8th intake

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...

7th intake, 8th intake, TU Wien

Farewell to the 8th intake at TU Wien

The eigth intake has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. In a farewell session, we reviewed the summer term and showcased results of their hard ...

6th intake, Alumni, UTwente

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...

Alumni

Alumni story: 3D Web maps and my cartographic experiences after graduation

Six years ago, I completed the Master in Cartography. Looking back at those student times, great memories come to my mind: interesting lectures (my favorite ones were web cartography and scientific vi...

9th intake, TU Wien

Guest lectures at TU Wien

This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 10 guest lecturers at TU Wien. This way our students had the chance to meet and discuss with some of the leading researchers in the field of carto...

8th intake, TU Wien

An excursion about Otto Neurath and the Vienna Method

Otto Neurath (1882‒1945) was an Austrian philosopher and political economist, also known for developing Isotype – a method for showing statistical data in pictorial form. Main principle of the...

8th intake, TU München

Student story: Woodworking maps

I have always dreamt about working with wood! No matter if you are inept-handed, the new technologies such as laser cutter can give you all the necessary tools to get started. You can say to the machi...

8th intake, TU München, TU Wien

Munich, goodbye! Welcome to Vienna!

The first semester at TU Munich came to an end, and after challenging exams it is time to move forward. By semester completion, we asked our students which professional and personal skills they have d...

Alumni, General news

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...

8th intake, TU München

Student story: MakerSpace for making maps

Cartography M.Sc. students Michael Hallett and Luke Harvey came up with a challenging idea for their Mapping project this winter semester – creating a 3D printed model of one of the most beautif...

8th intake, TU München

Mapping Project presentations at TUM

The mapping project is a creative elective module that gives form to innovative cartographic concepts and visualization solutions for challenging issues in cartography and GIScience. In this course...

8th intake, TU München

Guest lecture series by Prof. Dr Alan MacEachren from GeoVISTA Center, The Pennsylvania State University

Prof. Dr Alan MacEachren, the Director of GeoVISTA Center (The Pennsylvania State University) has made an important contribution to our Cartography Master Program. We were delighted to host Alan at TU...

2nd intake, Alumni, TU München

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 ...

9th intake, General news

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....

7th intake, TU Dresden

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 ...

7th intake, TU Dresden

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 ...

6th intake, Alumni, UTwente

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...

8th intake, TU München

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...

General news, TU Wien

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 ...

8th intake, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

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...

6th intake, Alumni, TU Dresden, TU München, UTwente

Congratulations to 11 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates

We are happy to congratulate the first students from the 6th intake who finished their Master’s thesis over the summer: Armand Kapaj, Maria Turchenko, Roar Engell, Christian Haack, Satarupa Chatterj...

7th intake, TU Wien

Farewell to the 7th intake at TU Wien

The seventh intake has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a farewell session to review the semester and to showcase results of the...

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