The LOFAR Transients Key Science Project

The Transients Key Science Project (TKP) is one of six Key Science Projects of the next generation radio telescope LOFAR. Its aim is the study of transient and variable low-frequency radio sources with an extremely broad science case ranging from relativistic jet sources to pulsars, exoplanets, flare stars, radio bursts at cosmological distances, the identification of gravitational wave sources and even SETI. In these proceedings we will discuss some of the science goals of the TKP and with the roll out of the first few stations having begun we describe the current status of some of the pipelines being developed for the TKP.