The study of light hyper‐nuclei via associated strangeness production in (p,K+) reactions is discussed. Though the process is characterized by a very large momentum transfer the presence of short range correlations is expected to rise the cross section up to the order of nb/sr. Two approved proposals for high resolution studies of this reaction are discussed and respective detection limits are presented. The first is scheduled for October 1990 at the SPES4 spectrometer at the SATURNE acclerator (LNS Saclay). The second deals with the planned upgrading of the BIG KARL magnetic spectrograph at the cooled beam facility COSY being bulit at Forschungsanlage Ju¨lich.