A cool network where researchers can share their work and work together to make something awesome.
A simple icon, scalable to any size, clean, without to many details, yet which incorporates everything related to SkyLab.
An abstract icon which can represent a variety of things depending on what you seek in it. It has the elements of a bird (mascot), wings, implicitly sky, it can be comprehended as a flask with liquids in it, or as a form of clouds, or even a planet - all in one.
Yet the icon remains very modern and stylish, fit for a website like this, surging inspiration for the applicants.