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...
Nicolás Martínez Heredia Wins PAIGH Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in Cartography
We are proud to announce that Nicolás Martínez Heredia, from the 12th intake, has been awarded First Prize in the 2025 PAIGH (Pan American Institute of Geography and History) competition for the bes...
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...
Celebrating 15 Years of the Cartography Master – A Joyful Reunion in Munich
On 10 October 2025, alumni, students, and staff of the international Master of Science in Cartography gathered in Munich to celebrate the program’s 15th anniversary. The event brought together nearl...
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...
Critical Perspectives at the Junger Kongress Geographie 2025
“creative. critical. changing.—young perspectives on geography”, was the running motto of this year’s Junger Kongress Geographie held in Leipzig on the 17th-20th September. Organized by studen...
Celebrating 15 Years of the MSc Cartography
It’s time to get together and celebrate! This year marks a special milestone for the MSc Cartography program: we are welcoming our 15th cohort and celebrating the graduation of over 250 students —...
Juliette Bricker wins Best Student Paper Award at ICC’25
At this year’s International Cartographic Conference in Vancouver, Canada, our student Juliette Bricker from the 13th intake won the Best Student Paper Award for her presentation “The Qualitative...
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...
Geospatial excellence: Our graduates honored with AGEO Award 2025
Our Cartography M.Sc. graduates, Ulrike Holfeld and Isaac Kissiedu, have both been honored with 4th place in the AGEO Award 2025 for their outstanding Master’s theses. Awardees of the AGEO Awards 20...
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...
Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map
Our student Juliette Bricker has won the Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map in the 2024 Map Design Competition organized by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) for her o...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Héctor Ochoa Ortiz elected to the OSM Foundation Board of Directors
Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, alumni of the 10th intake, has been elected to the OpenStreetMap Foundation board of directors by its members at their 18th Annual General Meeting. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is...
Five maps of IMC students featured in Geohipster Calendar 2025
We are excited to share that five maps of our students/alumni are featured in the new issue of the Geohipster calendar: Dilara Bozkurt (Cover) – Native Wine Grapes of the Mediterranean Region Ks...
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...
Mapping Projects of the Winter Semester 2023/2024 at TUM
Cartography MSc students of the first semester at TUM developed data visualization methods, prototypes, and cartographic designs using different tools and digital media within the Mapping Project cour...
Cartography MSc graduate Mihir Desai in conversation with Crossmopollinate
Cartography M.Sc. graduate Mihir Desai (11th intake) participated in a podcast hosted by ‘Crossmopollinate’, the research lab of ‘Co/Lab’, which is a collective of researchers ...
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....
Map by Phoebe Ly represents September in 2024 GeoHipster Calendar
We are excited to share that Phoebe Ly’s map “Taman Negara Gunung Mulu” is part of the 2024 GeoHipster Calendar. Taman Negara Gunung Mulu (Mount Mulu National Park), is a UNESCO Worl...
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...
Welcoming the 13th intake!
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. We were welcomed in the MSc Cartography program. The Welcoming Week took place from October 9 to 16, 2023 at the main campus of the Techncal Uni...
Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2023 for Dilara Bozkurt and Zhenjiang Li
Congratulations to our M.Sc. students Dilara Bozkurt and Zhenjiang Li for being awarded the Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2023 in the category students. Zhenjiang Li – Hokkien Zhenjiang Li won with hi...
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...
Congratulations to our graduates for receiving AGEO Award!
Cartography M.Sc. graduates Valerian Lange and Josè Pablo Ceballos received 1st and 2nd place in the AGEO Awards 2023 for the best master theses in the Geographic information field in Austria. The aw...
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...
Penn State’s pandemic visualization workshop for Cartography MSc students
A group of students from Penn State visited the Research Group Cartography at TU Wien in the second week of May to give a workshop on working with big geospatial data of the pandemic. The workshop sta...
Accessible Places, Everywhere – An Interactive Vernissage of Maps Created by our Students in the 1st Semester at TUM
In our 2023 Mapping Project we focused on barrier-free maps to improve the mobility of people with visual or mobility impairments. During the project we had the chance to get first-hand input from the...
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...
Welcome 12th intake!
The Welcoming Week 2022 took place between 10 – 17th October at the main TUM campus in Munich. Altogether 20 students from 16 different countries enrolled this year. Our newcomers had a very busy...
Alpine Cartography Field School 2022
Between September 26th and October 5th 2022, the Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS) took place in Ramsau/Dachstein (Austria) already for the 11th time since the start of the International Cartogra...
Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2022 for Camila Narbaitz Sarsur
Congratulations to our M.Sc. student Camila Narbaitz Sarsur for winning the Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2022 in the category students with Wien Secession – An Artsy Walk through Vienna, which she desig...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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. ...
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...