WAVE is arming key corporate stakeholders and citizen developers with a robust, research-led LC/NC platform and advanced adoption toolkit. WAVE will leverage international academic and industrial knowledge in LC/NC as well as in formal methods, security, and more, to focus on low-code development platforms, their adoption, use and evaluation.

Research within the project will provide a coherent, holistic, and robust platform that offers both generic and customisable modelling environments aimed at LC style domain specific development, as well as a superior “Digital Thread” platform which supports data and software integration. This is achieved by means of meta-tooling support, enhanced formal methods, and the creation of applications and case studies using domains, languages, and tooling congruous to those known by industry collaborators and domain experts.

Entrenched into the strategy of WAVE is a commitment to stakeholder collaboration, as well as continuous platform iteration and research/educational dissemination. In this respect, the WAVE research programme will be built on the foundations of engaged and action research methods. Stakeholders will be engaged throughout the project which spans tool and platform development, adoption on case studies, validation, and stress testing, and dissemination, education, and training. This ambitious research program will achieve significant impact across the quadruple helix of government, industry, academia, and society while also contributing to talent development.