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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
#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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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&#...