Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is receiving more and more recognition and protection; especially in Shanghai where local universities are about to launch undergraduate and postgraduate majors in the city’s ICH. According to Yang Qinghong - an official with the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and TV - this long-term project also includes publications of specific textbooks, special funds and a constant exchange between experts and students in order to share expertise and experience. A lot of items concerning Chinese arts, traditions, practices and skills are already officially listed and safeguarded by UNESCO; this number is even higher if we consider national-level and city-level protections, where a law passed in 2011 positively impacted people engagement in ICH preservation. The peculiarity of Shanghai’s ICH consists in a unique mix of eastern and western culture due to the opening of the city’s harbour to international commerce in 1843. Examples of this “China-meets-west” flavour are shikumen style buildings and Tushanwan, also known as “the cradle of western paintings”. Over the past few years, Shanghai has considerably increased its commitment on ICH protection: indeed, beyond universities courses, many local primary and middle schools have integrated their curricula with traditional skills such as shadow play, paper cutting, bamboo carving and dough modelling; in addition to this, the local government is providing folk artists with allowances so that they can hand their arts down to new generations. Despite the Ministry of Culture has shown its support to foster these initiatives, many advocate the urgency of further actions since apprentices are few and youngsters are hardly appealed by these ancient arts with slow and difficult returns. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Monday, 15 September 2014 (Source: Ecns.cn) This news has been realized by gLAWcal—Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy and the University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy which are both beneficiaries of the European Union Research Executive Agency IRSES Project “Liberalism in Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC) coordinated by Aix-Marseille University (CEPERC). This work has been realized in the framework of Workpackages 4, coordinated by University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy.