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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...

7th intake, TU Wien

Guest lectures at TU Wien

This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 7 guest lecturers at TU Wien. Most of them not only offered public CartoTalks, but also in-depth classes for our students only. This way our stude...

5th intake, Alumni, TU Dresden

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...

7th intake, TU München, TU Wien

Goodbye to Munich, welcome to Vienna!

All 24 students of the 7th intake finished their first semester at TU München and just started their second semester at TU Wien. After a busy semester and challenging exams, all personal belongings w...

6th intake

#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...

5th intake, Alumni, TU Dresden, TU München

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...

8th intake, General news

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....

7th intake, TU München

Guest seminar on User-centered Cartography

In the beginning of December, Robert Roth – Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin – visited TUM for one week. Rob gave very interesting guest lectures to the Cartography M.Sc...

6th intake, General news

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...

7th intake, TU München

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...

6th intake, TU Dresden

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...

1st intake, Alumni, UTwente

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...

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

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...

5th intake, Alumni

Congratulations to the first graduates of the 5th intake

We are happy to congratulate our first Erasmus Mundus alumni of the 5th intake: Maja Kalinic, Dragana Subotic, Junyan Li, Chenyu Zuo, Md. Marufur Rahman and Kate Doyle. Combining Open-Source Programmi...

6th intake

What our students did during their summer …

Due to different term dates of the four Cartography M.Sc. universities, the break between the 2nd and the 3rd semester is the first longer break for our students. The summer time can be spent on trave...

4th intake, Alumni

Graduation of Cartography students

We congratulate all our students from the 4th intake who finished their Master’s thesis this summer: Vasileios Toutziaris, Alexandra Strel, Dayanc Moradi, Vikram Devi Eswaramoorthy, Amir Ashkan ...

6th intake, TU Wien

Farewell to the sixth intake at TU Wien

The sixth intake of the International Master Programme on Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a small farewell sess...

2nd intake, 5th intake, 6th intake, Alumni

Cartography M.Sc. students and alumni at the International Cartographic Conference in Washington, D.C.

This week, the 28th International Cartographic Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. The bi-annual conference of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is a huge celebration of cartogra...

General news, TU Dresden, TU München, TU Wien, UTwente

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...

General news, TU Wien

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...

6th intake, TU Wien

Orienteering Events in Vienna

Orienteering combines map reading with navigation and running, which makes it a perfect sport for aspiring cartographers. Last week, two orienteering events were organized in Vienna: the Austrian Acad...

Alumni, General news

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...

4th intake, Alumni, TU Wien

Master’s thesis presentation of Myles Cook

We congratulate Myles Cook, student of the 4th intake, for finishing his Master’s Thesis “An Empirical Evaluation of 2D and Interactive 3D Terrain Visualisations for Cycling Maps”. To assess...

6th intake, TU Wien

Guest lecture on Geovisual Analytics

On May 16, 2017, the Research Group Cartography at TU Wien hosted the CartoTalk “Making Maps that Matter – New Challenges in Geovisual Analytics” by Anthony Robinson from Penn State Univ...

General news

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...

5th intake, TU Dresden

Our student Ao Kaidong participated in Eisriesenwelt measurement campaign

From April 20 until April 24, a measurement campaign took place in the biggest ice cave in the world, the “Eisriesenwelt”, near the village of Werfen (Austria). Our student Ao participated...

6th intake, TU Wien

Guest lecture on transit maps

On April 10, 2017, the Research Group Cartography at TU Wien hosted a CartoTalk by Maxwell Roberts from University of Essex, UK. In his presentation, Maxwell Roberts discussed the criteria necessary f...

5th intake

Follow our student Maja on her Erasmus blog

Our student and Erasmus Mundus scholarship holder Maja Kalinic from Bosnia and Herzegowina (5th intake) shares her experiences in the Cartography M.Sc. in her blog on erasmusu. In her latest post sh...

4th intake, Alumni, TU München

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&#...

6th intake, TU Wien

Welcome in Vienna for the second semester

We are happy to welcome 20 students of the International Master in Cartography at TU Vienna for the summer semester 2017. Students come from all over the world, including Albania, Austria, Canada, Ch...

6th intake, TU München

Farewell to the 6th intake

The first semester in Munich passed by quickly! Before moving to Vienna, students from the 6th intake took part in the farewell session and summarized the results of student work and gave feedback on ...

6th intake, TU München

Guest lecture on the Immersive Video Environment

With the rise of various technologies, there is now a vast amount of (complex) spatiotemporal information that can be useful in different contexts of high societal relevance. Phenomena such as climate...

6th intake, TU München

Visit of colleagues from ESRI

Jan Wilkening and Malte Sohlbach from Esri Germany were our guest lecturers on 3rd February 2017. GIS specialists from Kranzberg presented the ArcGIS platform technology and concepts. Interesting exam...

4th intake, Alumni, TU Wien

Master Thesis Presentation: Comparing mouse- and touch-based interaction for map search tasks on large screens

On February 1, Shuoyan Huang, student of the International Master in Cartography, presented her Master Thesis „Comparing mouse- and touch-based interaction for map search tasks on large screens“...

2nd intake, Alumni

Cartography M.Sc. alumni involved in tactile atlas project

Our Cartography M.Sc. alumni Anna Vetter led the team who created the new “Tactile Atlas of Switzerland”. Anna works in Zürich for the mapping software company Esri. The new atlas is printed with...

6th intake, TU München

Christmas Party 2016

To jump in in the Christmas mood, Cartography students organized a party with traditional food from their countries and prepared short presentations about the Christmas rituals. But the culminating po...

6th intake, TU München

Guest lecture on the Atlas of Switzerland

How to design modern atlas visualizations? What layouts, icons and colour schemes are used in innovative multimedia cartography? Our guest lecture, Dr. René Sieber from ETH Zürich answered those que...

6th intake, Alumni, TU München

OSM Mapping Day

Within the OSMGEOWEEK, teachers, students, community groups and map lovers around the world, join together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of ...

5th intake, TU Dresden

Alpine Cartography Field School 2016

25 students of the TUD Master programmes “Cartography” and “Geoinformation Technologies” originating from eleven countries can look back on nine days in an alpine, partly high-alpine terrain. ...