For the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, the BMWSB intends to hold successive federal congresses under the name "Day of Regional Development" in order to enable the exchange of views on important future issues of regional development as a regional equivalent to the Federal Congress national urban development policy.

The new format is intended to position the policy field of regional planning and regional policy nationwide with an appropriate event format and to highlight and strengthen the importance of the regions for a policy of equivalence and sustainable or resilient development; Politics, practice and science of regional development and spatial planning are networked and thus interdisciplinary and cross-level information exchange as well as policy advice at eye level are made possible. In addition, the regions are to be networked and strengthened in this way and a direct exchange with the federal government and the public is to be made possible in order to initiate joint learning processes and successfully tackle regional challenges. The congresses also offer a framework that allows the model regions from the various federal programmes (including the model projects of regional planning (MORO) and the Federal Programme For Shaping the Region (financed by the Federal Programme for Rural Development - BULE)) to network permanently beyond the individual projects / programme duration.

An agency is to be commissioned with the preparation of content and organisation as well as the implementation of up to three federal congresses under the name "Day of Regional Development" via a framework agreement.

According to the service description and tender documents