Our Graduates of the Academic Years 2007 - 2009!

Graduation Ceremony

Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure

After 3 semester of hard working 10 students of our Master's Programme Land Management and Land Tenure finally finished their study and graduate.

In a ceremonial frame the Graduation Ceremony 2009 took place on March 20th 2009 at the Headquarters of the Bavarian Construction Industry Association in Munich. We are proud to announce that Mr. State Minister Siegfried Schneider, MdL, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery gave a speech!

The Programme of the Ceremony:

Slideshow of the students and Opening by Programme Manager Jorge Espinoza "Dear graduates, I can assure you that just like for your predecessors; your relationship with TUM and our programme is only beginning. We will make sure that we stay in contact and that we continue our work together, from now on not as students and teachers but as colleagues in the wider field of land management." ==> Read More! ==> Slideshow of the students

Welcome by Mr. Senator E.h. Gerhard Hess, Chair of Förderkreis Bodenordnung und Landentwicklung München e.V. "We have to engage in key issues such as education and capacity building, providing security of tenure, development of infrastructure and sound urban as well as rural land management. We rely on you and in your capacities attained at TU München for moving our countries forward in the achievement the Millennium Development Goals." ==> Read More!

	Speech by Programme Director Prof. Dr. Holger Magel "Mary Kay Ash, an American business woman, said that there are three kinds of people: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen and those who wondered what happened. You can decide which type of person you want to be. Dear Graduates, I am sure you will all be making things happen." ==> Read More!

Congratulations by State Minister Siegfried Schneider, MdL, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery "It was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, probably Germany’s greatest poet, who said: There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. You have successfully completed the International Master’s Degree in “Land Management and Land Tenure”. I believe that the three semesters here in Munich have also given you roots and lent you wings." ==> Read More!

Presentation of Certificates by State Minister Siegfried Schneider and Prof. Dr. Holger Magel

	Presentation of President’s Award and congratulations by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Stilla, Prodekan, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, TUM Best student: Jürg Endres Best Master's Thesis: Ram Singh Thapa

	Congratulations by DAAD. Speech given by Ms. Fahria Masum on behalf of Mrs. Anke Stahl.

	Speech by Mr. Anthony Ntiador (Ghana) on behalf of the graduates

After the official programme of about one and a half hours the attendees were invited in the following reception with snacks, drinks and time for talking and celebrating with the new Masters of Land Management and Land Tenure.

Some further impressions: