Our Christmas Gift Contest is over, so we are happy to announce the lucky four winners. Thank you for all the interesting ideas and your creative contributions!

We had four categories: Priceless Moment, Less Than 50€, For Kids and Self-Made. Each category winner will receive an Amazon voucher worth 50€.

And here are the winners!

Category PRICELESS MOMENT:

Farytales by Tiberiu: Life to fairytales, a real life novel.

Category LESS THAN 50€:

Chocolate by harshitkalra770: Make your memories come on the chocolate.

Category FOR KIDS:

Paint a friend by Jennifer: ...nice idea for young & young at heart.

Category SELF-MADE:

Grow your card by SAADITHYA: A Christmas greeting card that can grow into a tree or plant.

The Jury: “Thank you all for participating at the Christmas Gift Contest. We hope you had fun. You submitted a lot of good ideas, so the decision process wasn’t easy…
Finally we hope the Christmas Contest helped and inspired all of us to find some unique and special gifts for Christmas.
Congratulations to all the winners!”

	Stefanie Mainwaring As team lead for project realization, Stefanie Mainwaring coordinates the development, design and project management for HYVE Innovation Community’s web solutions and applications. Stefanie holds a business management degree from the LMU in Munich. Prior to HYVE, she lived in San Francisco, CA, where she gained extensive practical experience in the fields of innovation management, software product management and marketing.
	Giordano Koch Giordano Koch is a Managing Director of the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH. He established the public sector division and leads the Sales & Consulting team. Giordano works with clients from various industries, the public sector and research institutions, leading them to successfully design, develop, manage as well as evaluate innovative communities. In addition he is working on his PhD at the University Hamburg with a focus on open innovation, co-creation in the public sector. Furthermore, he teaches at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and is an eligible speaker for Open Innovation, Co-Creation and Crowdsourcing.
	Markus Rieger Markus Rieger is CEO and CTO of the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH, after having been CEO of HYVE’s subsidiary company, GameCreator GmbH from October 2004 to January 2009. He gained experience in various companies during his studies in computer sciences at the Technical University, Munich. After his engagement with CyberSymetrix IT and the YadaYada GmbH, he worked for WebToGo Mobiles Internet GmbH for 3 years. Markus Rieger consults clients from various industries and regularly gives speeches about Open Innovation, Co-Creation and Online-Communities.