Add funding acknowledgement

Author: pont-us

README.md

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 ## `xcetool image run`
 
 Run a Docker container using an image converted from a Jupyter notebook.
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+# Acknowledgements
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+xcengine was developed as part of the Open-Earth-Monitor Cyberinfrastructure
+project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe
+research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101059548.